HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoFirefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" optionmessage-squaremessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1960arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1953arrow-down1message-squareFirefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" optionHiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square72fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareakilou@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year 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-21 year 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-21 year 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-up2arrow-down2·1 year 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-up4·1 year 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