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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 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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[–] unsaid0415@szmer.info 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/d677b10f3c3bd25840ba9707e77b9e25d8ccbbd3/toolkit/components/antitracking/data/StripOnShare.json

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So just a set of strings determined to be used for tracking among a set of hosts? It's not like I have a better solution, but I feel like making this anti-tracking method encourages more complex tracking params. At some point, I wouldn't be surprised to see randomly generated query parameter keys which are resolved server side, making this approach impossible.

[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

I completely agree with you, but this is always the problem isn't it? It's a cat and mouse game. If the mouse learns techniques to hide from the cat the cat develops better techniques to find the mouse. It's not a reason for the mouse to stop hiding.