HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoFirefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" optionmessage-squaremessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up11.28Kfile-text
arrow-up11.28Kmessage-squareFirefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" optionHiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square97fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareakilou@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoBut default is putting your cursor in the address bar and hitting ctrl-c. How would Firefox clean it like that?
minus-squareEuphoma@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-27 months agoIf it removes the tracking from the link before the page loads, it could work. So it would already be clean when you copy it.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 months agoOn android anyway, that’s an interceptable action, and you can also monitor and alter the clipboard. So they could either alter what gets copied before its copied, or scan the copied item after it’d copied and alter it.
minus-squareDogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoIt doesn’t. If you think about it though, you’ve already visited that link so why clean it now.
minus-squareakilou@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months agoSo the person you send it to gets a clean link
But default is putting your cursor in the address bar and hitting ctrl-c. How would Firefox clean it like that?
If it removes the tracking from the link before the page loads, it could work. So it would already be clean when you copy it.
On android anyway, that’s an interceptable action, and you can also monitor and alter the clipboard.
So they could either alter what gets copied before its copied, or scan the copied item after it’d copied and alter it.
It doesn’t.
If you think about it though, you’ve already visited that link so why clean it now.
So the person you send it to gets a clean link