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No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. 🥳

Firefox copy link without site tracking

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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 11 months ago

Doesn’t it just clean up the link or does Firefox actually know which part of the link to remove?

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago
[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 11 months ago

How does it know what part of the link is the site tracking?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

Looks like it has a list of global and site specific parameters that it is safe to remove.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago

Generally, most are variables prefixed with utm_

They likely built an index from most of the Analytics services also.

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 months ago

I think it's a combination of things, a basic approach of removing the query string (after the question mark) with exceptions for different sites that might need some of the query string.

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