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No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. ๐ฅณ
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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Why would i ever have a link with tracking?
What do you mean? Tons of links on the web have trackers appended to the URL.
Pretty sure they are asking, "Why would I ever want the tracking copied, why is this relegated to a bespoke option instead of being the default behavior?"
I think it's good to have a normal copy along with this remove tracking one. In case for some reason removing tracking messes something up with the link and makes it not work. It's always nice to have options rather than just doing it automatically.
agree with you about having options, but swap it around. have copy without trackers be "copy link", and then have an option "copy link with trackers"
I disagree. I think the default option should be what users expect, and users expect "copy" to do exactly that: copy without modifying the text.
I think we could have an about:config tweak to make copying links always remove trackers
account activation links often have tracking required for them to work
The fact is that there is no surefire way to get rid only of tracking parameters, because they can mix in with other legit ones that if removed would break the website you're visiting.
Last I heard, Facebook had rolled out some encrypted URL parameters, so the collective mapping efforts to manually identify parameters only used for tracking on each different website could very well be nullified if many implement something evil as that