It is also possible to have that feature on iOS? (I did not want to create another identical issue)
Remove Trackers from Copied URLs
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.