New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking parameters

Re:New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking param... by ezoe on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:56PM (#31915566)

The article said, with this feature enabled, Firefox removes query parameter "fbclid" even on example.com domain.

So if you happened to use the same query parameter the popular web sites are using for the tracking, you will have a problem.

Also, web sites can counter react by changing the name of query parameter, or just generate random names and treats unknown query parameter as a tracking parameter.

I don't understand the kind of people who, on the one hand, hate tracking parameter so much want to let browser remove it, but on the other hand, still continues to use such a web service. Just don't use such a web service. I don't.

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Re:New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking param... by raxxorraxor on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:31AM (#31919241)

Because it sadly has become so normalized that almost any site tracks you to the best ability of the website creator. If people had done that from the beginning like it was heavily recommended we certainly would have less dragnet tracking.

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