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Firefox is officially and directly fucking with Google and I am here for it!
Velux ΘΔ@itsOasus and Twitter and Amazon and Facebook and….
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Zeta SyanthisWhat version of Firefox is that in? (And how soon can we have them enable it as the default? XD)
june@zetasyanthis I have it on firefox 120
Cursv@zetasyanthis @itsOasus It's Firefox 120.0 that added this feature; see <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.0/releasenotes#note-789842>. Sadly though, according to caniuse.com, Firefox 120+ has 0% global usage.
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George Liquor, American@zetasyanthis @itsOasus I'm running 120.0 and it's there :D
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Rusty Corgi@itsOasus I would like to make that the default behavior instead of a separate option pls thank you 
@Rusty I feel the same way ngl
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@itsOasus Good ol' Firefox. Well done!
British Tech Guru@itsOasus I'd like to see Firefox allow itself to tell websites that it's actually Chrome and thus mislead Google's software.
Matunos@britishtechguru @itsOasus there's an extension for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
Bruce Heerssen 
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@britishtechguru @itsOasus
+1 User-Agent Switcher
A big upraised middle finger to all those websites who say, "Your browser is not up to date, so our website will simply stop working now. Bye!"
Wendy MsGator 🐊That amused me. Well done.
Flominator@britishtechguru
There's an extension named "User-Agent Switcher" for that, but you can also do it directly via about:config
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There's an extension named "User-Agent Switcher" for that, but you can also do it directly via about:config
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@britishtechguru @itsOasus
I get where you're coming from, but it's important to accurately identify the browser for a couple reasons. The biggest reason in my mind is that if Firefox's adoption numbers are artificially low, there is less reason for websites to support W3C standards instead of catering to the dominant browser. (Currently Chrome, but that can change, as we've seen with the demise of Internet Explorer.)
I get where you're coming from, but it's important to accurately identify the browser for a couple reasons. The biggest reason in my mind is that if Firefox's adoption numbers are artificially low, there is less reason for websites to support W3C standards instead of catering to the dominant browser. (Currently Chrome, but that can change, as we've seen with the demise of Internet Explorer.)
EndlessMason@itsOasus looking forward to clicking on links just doing this automagically
Nic Roland 
@EndlessMason @itsOasus yeah... I'm wondering how this feature actually works. I'm guessing it's either stripping query strings? If that's the case, you'll likely not want it as a default cos query strings have legit uses as well.
Sometimes links with redirects are used for tracking purposes but, again, it's got legit uses and I'm not sure how they'd strip that in a privacy preserving way...
Colin Watson@nicr9 @EndlessMason @itsOasus It strips specific parameters from query strings. See https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/antitracking/anti-tracking/query-stripping/index.html
Lance, Enjoying Copious Pollen@itsOasus That's awesome!
I wish they would do the same with Thunderbird next. I get so many emails containing trackers these days. Pi-Hole blocks the links, but it would be great to neuter them at the source.
crafti@itsOasus how are they implementing it? is there an FOSS library?
Nikolay Robotoev 🥞🎙️
UltimateNoob 🤣@itsOasus Wow and I didn't know link tracking was even a thing. What a time to be alive.
Karl Auerbach@itsOasus Well.... news.google.com still links to the desired news item via an indirect (google controlled) intermediary. That seems to still be present even with the "copy link without site tracking".
PaulDavisTheFirst@karlauerbach @itsOasus This can't fix that particular issue. It doesn't address routing via a "3rd party", it addresses a link that contains additional material in the URL (beyond that needed to identify the URI) intended for tracking purposes.
Steven Toth@itsOasus I’m so glad I switched back! Yea
Nathan Schneider@itsOasus the lack of direct links in Goog search results is one thing that has kept me on DDG over the years.
Eric Cartman@itsOasus It's great to see that Mozilla is integrating more and more ClearURLs functions directly into Firefox.
V.H. Belvadi@itsOasus Good. It should go the way of AMP—to the bin.
Robby Barnes 
@itsOasus @briankrebs I believe the Arc browser also does this by default
A Very Nervous Gamedev@itsOasus ooooohh I love this
Greg@itsOasus I liked how the announcement page for the release had utm tracking on it so you could test it out.
moving_target01@itsOasus this is wonderful and I'll be using this option from now on. :)
I'll also be sure to send this to everyone that i know that uses FF.
this also makes me very happy that i send $ every month to both the Firefox and Thunderbird projects. :)
@itsOasus For the visually impaired (and for search), Firefox menu item: "Copy Link Without Site Tracking"👍✌️
Corin@itsOasus this is great, I think I would prefer the options in reverse order though:
* Copy Link
* Copy Link with extra site tracking
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Hugo Slabbert ⚠️
Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥@corin @itsOasus yes, me too! is there already a feature request for this that I can vote up?
`Da Elf@itsOasus That feature is super useful. I mostly use it sharing articles from news sites.
mattg@itsOasus Google has been fucking with Firefox performance on their apps so might as well
Mori@itsOasus Hell. Yeah. Now I won’t need to delete everything after the ? anymore.
Robertus Cognoscens“Copy ungoogled link”.
@itsOasus what I want is a keyboard shortcut for 'copy url for current page without tracking/query strings'
RadioAddition@itsOasus ClearURLs but built in rofl
Tray Cook@itsOasus yes! This aught to be fun to watch.
Ryan Hamel@itsOasus How is it messing with Google if it's not the DEFAULT action?
Catherine BerryI understand the spirit behind this idea, but it worries me a lot. A browser shouldn't do anything with the path and query parts of a URL beyond sending them to the server. Removing tracking information requires automated recognition of tracking information, which will inevitably lead to false positives or negatives. It also sets off an unwinnable arms race between trackers changing how tracking is encoded and browsers updating detectors to spot the new encodings.
Matthew DockreyIt does mean that, with probably high but certainly not total reliability. The only way to regain near-total reliability would be to test each modified URL yourself before sending it to someone else, e.g. by pasting it into a new browser tab and verifying the right things happen when the page loads. This seems more annoying than long URLs.
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Jim Luther
pfogl@itsOasus I just earlier copied something and thought that might be from one of my browser extensions, but it's awesome that this actually is a first-party feature
Incident Creator ❎@itsOasus
That'll save me a bunch of editing.
That'll save me a bunch of editing.
Chris Johnson@itsOasus Sweet. I already do this by hand all the time but this should make it so much easier.
Neia masks@itsOasus Not sure it works on youtube's site tracking URL parameters, though :/