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Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. 🥳

Firefox copy link without site tracking

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I'm curious whether this sweet feature alone will decrease data greedy websites revenue in $ millions

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Firefox user for many, many, many years. I tried chrome once and was dismayed at how sluggish it was, hogging ram & cpu.

FF just gets better and better with every update. I'm amazed that more people aren't using it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They should make this the default.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or a setting that makes it the default.

I don't like any software I use to destroy data (even tracking data) without my say so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, I agree with you 100%, but power of defaults is how big companies get average consumers. Maybe Firefox should make it default with a setting to turn it on?

A setting titled "allow copying of tracking data", a lot of people won't allow.

Fight fire with fire.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This just:

Encourages companies to try to work around it
More importantly, possibly breaks important functionality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's like saying GDPR encourages companies to try work around data protection, so it should not be implemented.