I Can :has Browser Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 148 – Firefox Nightly News
blog.nightly.mozilla.org
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
    1182·
    11 months 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

    • m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      215·
      11 months ago

      “refuse to serve you data”, read as, “refuse to show you ads”, yeah right

      • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
        181·
        11 months ago

        I would love for you to expand on what you were trying to say with this comment, in great detail. I would consider it a favor.

  • Risk@feddit.uk
    113·
    11 months 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
      261·
      11 months 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
        13·
        11 months 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
          5·
          11 months 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.

  • ZeroCool@feddit.ch
    57·
    11 months 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.

    • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      11 months ago

      Had no idea something existed for this, I’m forever deleted annoying tracking info from links. Mozilla continues to impress me with their privacy additions… latest update notified me about email masking which looks like it’ll be a major boon once I work out how to use it.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        5·
        11 months ago

        Clear URL is great. Beware that it can break some login and payment sites though. The Addon unfortunately lacks a whitelist so you have to turn it on and off, so it’s easy to forget to turn back on.

  • Bosa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    11 months 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
    201·
    11 months 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.

    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social
      19·
      11 months ago

      There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with “utm_”

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        11 months 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
          2·
          11 months 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

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    11 months 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?

  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
    14·
    11 months ago

    How does firefox determine which params are trackers and which params are required data?

      • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
        3·
        11 months ago

        So just a set of strings determined to be used for tracking among a set of hosts? It’s not like I have a better solution, but I feel like making this anti-tracking method encourages more complex tracking params. At some point, I wouldn’t be surprised to see randomly generated query parameter keys which are resolved server side, making this approach impossible.

        • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v@feddit.nl
          3·
          11 months ago

          I completely agree with you, but this is always the problem isn’t it? It’s a cat and mouse game. If the mouse learns techniques to hide from the cat the cat develops better techniques to find the mouse. It’s not a reason for the mouse to stop hiding.

  • Fidelity9373@artemis.camp
    10·
    11 months ago

    Tried it yesterday. Not working on Amazon links quite yet, hopefully the feature improves. Would love the ability to toggle it for default.

  • toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    134·
    11 months 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