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Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Currently still in Nightly and only on 'Copy Link'. Still nice progress though.

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

Won’t this become an arms race to mask tracking elements as “legitimate” looking parameters?

Maybe, but only like 3% of people are using Firefox so, maybe not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@NounsAndWords
At least in Germany, it's about 10%.
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