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.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
    1082·
    1 year ago

    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

  • Risk@feddit.uk
    66·
    1 year ago

    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
      201·
      1 year ago

      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
        24·
        1 year ago

        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 year ago

          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.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    1 year ago

    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
      122·
      1 year ago

      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
        6·
        1 year ago

        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
    291·
    1 year ago

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

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

  • 4am@lemm.ee
    281·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        81·
        1 year ago

        most of the time sharing utm links isn’t helpful to the origin as if you copy a link from your email it’ll have medium=email, but actually should now be medium=direct

        • Stumblinbear@pawb.social
          21·
          1 year ago

          Anything is better than nothing. Besides, it’s still useful because you can see where the original link was copied from, and you still have the referrer header

  • ZeroCool@feddit.ch
    25·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • disconnectikacio@lemmy.world
    212·
    1 year ago

    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 year ago

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

  • toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    114·
    1 year ago

    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