Remove Trackers from Copied URLs
not to be a little offtopic but this also could be helpful with sharing specific product pages too. or in my particular usercase something like this would had automatically snip anything past the question mark character in an ebay url, or to give you this simple dummy example: ebay.ca/itm/40000 address instead of ebay.ca/itm/40000?e=randomthingshere.morecruft
It is also possible to have that feature on iOS? (I did not want to create another identical issue)
Brief Summary
see https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/17/safari-link-tracking-protection/
remove some tracking parameters from URLs.
safari in ios 17 and macos sonoma have this feature, which can be toggled:
Details:
pretty self-explanatory. remove known tracking parameters from URLs.
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eirk This seems to fall under those types of feaures like 'protect from fingerpritning' that are more marketing then actually useful.
Not only would we need to keep a database of URL params to strip, but this will undoubtedly break some legit sites. On top of it all, no ad-tech company that is serious about tracking relies on url paramater tracking, it is more there as a trojan horse so that users who remove this would have a false sense of security that they got rid of tracking.
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Vlad i agree that removing tracking parameters from urls is not enough, but i do believe that it is better than nothing. they are effective to a certain extent, especially when sharing URLs, and sharing extremely long URLs (eg amazon) is a nusiance
Also, since Safari is doing it, I think that the market standard is starting to be having URL parameter removal.
There is no need to mantain our own dataset. you can use an existing one:
https://github.com/ClearURLs/rules/ (they also have a mirror on gitlab)
https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt (here, url shortener refers to removing tracking params, thus shortening the URL. also has gitlab mirror)
is this the same ask?
https://orionfeedback.org/d/4375-remove-trackers-from-copied-urls
Today Firefox 120 offers this new handy feature: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.0/releasenotes/
So Firefox users can use it to automatically remove common tracking params like utm when copying a link
For years whenever I want to share an interesting site to friends, I switch to the address bar and copy the url, , then trigger a Keyboard Maestro macro to remove all pre-definied params. I think it would be convenient for us and hope Orion implements it as well.
+1
Would be nice if this happened automatically when using the cmd+shift+c shortcut to copy current URL.
Arc also does this, by far one of my favorite features in that browser.
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Vlad Brave also has this feature. On right-clicking on any link, it will give Copy Clean Link
option which removes tracking parameter. Essentially it applies these rules on the url to remove the tracking parameters.
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Vlad You may also want to take a look at ClearURLs' data. It has a few extra rules that AdGuard's URL Tracking Protection filter (which Brave uses and uBO has) seem to not have.
Also, currently blocked by #6739.