I Can :has Browser Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 148 – Firefox Nightly News
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Highlights The platform team has sent an Intent to Ship for the :has selector! Currently targeting Firefox 121. There’s a new item in the content context menu in Nightly ...

Currently still in Nightly and only on ‘Copy Link’. Still nice progress though.

  • Risk@feddit.uk
    150·
    1 年前

    Ooh. I hope this can be set as the default for ‘Copy Link’ and then I can just have the tracking when I actually want it.

    • navi@lemmy.tespia.org
      46·
      1 年前

      have the tracking when I actually want it.

      So never? I agree defaulting it would be great as long as it doesn’t falsely remove anything.

      • redfellow@sopuli.xyz
        33·
        1 年前

        Not all queryparameters are tracking, so the option to copy the actual href of the hyperlink is useful.

        Most of the time I appreciate a feature that strips them automatically

        • gkd@lemmy.ml
          8·
          1 年前

          Yea, existing extensions get things wrong sometimes. I’m sure this will be the same - especially if sites start changing things to temporarily circumvent. Needs to be an easy way to grab the real URL just in case.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
    118·
    1 年前

    firefox removes tracking data

    chrome wants to make it possible for websites to refuse to serve you data if you run unapproved software

    there is, in fact, a good guy in the browser wars

  • ZeroCool@feddit.ch
    75·
    1 年前

    That’s awesome! I use the Clear URLs extension and it does a great job but it’ll be nice to have this capability baked in.

    • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      56·
      1 年前

      Had no idea something existed for this, I’m forever deleted annoying tracking info from links. Mozilla continues to impress me with their privacy additions… latest update notified me about email masking which looks like it’ll be a major boon once I work out how to use it.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        6·
        1 年前

        Clear URL is great. Beware that it can break some login and payment sites though. The Addon unfortunately lacks a whitelist so you have to turn it on and off, so it’s easy to forget to turn back on.

  • 4am@lemm.ee
    60·
    1 年前

    This may be difficult to maintain as some query parameters might be necessary. How will they be sure they’re not stripping essential elements? Won’t this become an arms race to mask tracking elements as “legitimate” looking parameters?

    Awesome if they can pull it off, though.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
    56·
    1 年前

    Another fine addition would be a cut of redirecting trash. If you post some link in some soc network, it would sometimes replace it with it’s own link going through an outbound clicks tracker, safety pages ‘Do you really want to follow it?’ or just block you saying the link seems malicious.

    If I’m a 3%er, can I choose not to have it?

    • lud@lemm.ee
      12·
      1 年前

      Is AMP still a thing? I haven’t seen it in ages.

      I don’t use Google so maybe that’s why, but I hadn’t even seen it on Reddit or Lemmy in more than a year I believe.

      • M137@lemm.ee
        7·
        1 年前

        I see it pretty often. But most of the time, if an “AMPutator” bot doesn’t reply, someone usually mentions it and says to stop sharing AMP links and provides links to information about it. It’s good to see, but most people still aren’t aware of it, and most of those people wouldn’t care much. We all need to keep a lookout and always be ready to inform and teach others about it. It’s good to have articles about how AMP is bad for everyone (except google) saved so we can quickly share them every time we see someone share an AMP link.

  • Bosa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 年前

    Firefox once again proving it’s the GOAT of browsers.

    I’m sure this will come to mobile soon as well.

  • disconnectikacio@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 年前

    This should be default, or at least a switch, that if enabled, all links copied without tracking. BTW i was thinking, isnt there a simple app or service, that does only this: listen for links in clipboard, if a link added, automatically removes tracking params, and replaces with that on clipboard?

    • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      1 年前

      IMO this shouldn’t be default, since it messes with the link you’re copying, not only because of the potential to break.

      • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 年前

        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.

        • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v@feddit.nl
          3·
          1 年前

          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.

  • toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    1 年前

    I think I’m against this. Not because it’s the wrong thing to do, but it’s just going to swing marketers & such to obscure their tracking URLs to something like /my-slug/hashed-uid-for-tracking-without-query-param/post & it maybe unsafe or impossible to replace that part of the URL is some cases (think how not all credit cards numbers work, it has a built-in algorithm). The corpos can do this already now but query params are easier & less fiddly. Despite the large number of add-ons that could combat this already (including a uBlock Origin filter list), there wasn’t enough incentive to start another ad/tracking arms race… but you introduce it as a default feature in a major (🤞) browser, & now the corpos take notice instead of being able to wave it off as something a minority of users are doing.

    …And I say this as the guy that reminds $WORK chat poster to remove their tracking URLs for the privacy of the group