It occurs to me that I go through this workflow at least several times a day:
- Click on a link (typically from email) to open a page.
- Read that page, and decide to share it.
- Click on the URL bar.
- Edit the URL, to remove all the tracking crap at the end, and hit return to reload.
- Copy that, and share it to Discord/Mastodon/email/wherever I'm sending it.
It would be Very Nice if that whole copy-and-edit step in the middle could be reduced to a single button click: that would save me effort on a regular basis.
I haven't seen this feature elsewhere -- given the incentives of the industry, that isn't surprising, since the other companies aren't especially privacy-focused.
I might recommend this be a "copy URL" button, with the tracking-stripping as a setting; it isn't necessarily what everyone wants. (Although I personally am not coming up with a reason not to strip the tracking info.)
Obviously, the hardest part of this feature is defining "tracking info", since that varies from site to site. Conceivably, this could start with an MVP that just provides a user setting to define, globally and per-site, URL parameters that should be stripped, and learn from there.
