Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid' and 'utm'

Re:Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid... by hv42 on Friday February 21, 2020 @10:06PM (#22389135)

you can always copy the code and install locally if you don't trust the publisher. That's the full benefit of open source. If it breaks in the future, just inspect and copy the new version again?

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Re:Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid... by antpls on Saturday February 22, 2020 @04:43AM (#22390169)

I believe the parent is asking for more granularity in browsers permissions in general. On Firefox, permission granularity is a bit lagging behind other platforms, for example Android (which is already not perfect/too permissive)

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Re:Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid... by Too on Saturday February 22, 2020 @07:55AM (#22390750)

I think the problem is a plugin that can rewrite the url can rewrite the url to anywhere else which in effect becomes "read all your data". Firefox has taken such side channel attacks very rigorously so almost any plugin doing anything remotely interesting will have such requirement.

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