• 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    111·
    11 months ago

    Why wouldn’t this simply be default behavior, and then they could add a “Copy link with tracking” menu item?

    • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      It might become the default a little later on, they want to make sure it works ok first as an experimental feature before pushing it as a default would be my guess.

    • Mamertine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      I do that manually. In about 1 out of 10, what looks like tracking stuff is actually needed for the link to work. So I’d expect that copy without site tracking option to not work 100% of the time.

      • derpgon@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Probably just removes known tracking GET parameters like utm_*. Just from a parameter name and content it is impossble to infer the use.

  • thejodie@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I saw it earlier. When I tried it, it still kept the ?utm=blah&rel=blargh stuff on the URL from FB. 🤷‍♂️

  • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    11 months ago

    Firefox, or Mozilla, continues to be the only browser (at least among the biggies) that’s for the users, not the trackers and marketers.

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Thank goodness. I hate trying to copy share links and they got a whole paragraph of tracking BS. Even YouTube started to add that.

  • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Hell yeah! Normally I try to do this manually, so this is a useful feature for me