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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Currently still in Nightly and only on 'Copy Link'. Still nice progress though.

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[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Changing those param names can actually be pretty complex, because they're used for all sorts of analytics. Whole ad campaigns revolve around those codes, behind the scenes.

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I don't want to give these people any ideas, but you can just pseudo randomize parameter names and decode them server side before storing them for analytics, so this is a non issue.