I believe Spotify is doing something similar.
Would be nice if social networks and messengers would automatically strip these parameters.
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Eventually I think sites will customize every URL for each user.
TikTok is quite sneaky. Sharing from their mobile app, you get:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/[9digitCode]/
Only by opening the URL in a browser will you see:
https://www.tiktok.com/@[user]/video/[19numerals]?_t=[alphanumericIdentifier]&_r=1
…which can be sanitized.Here’s how they took it a step further too: YCombinator.
Same with Reddit, FB Messenger, Instagram, TikTok… Some of them are harder to spot, like how Reddit now goes
reddit.com/r/example/s/8913y4h93
Would be nice if social networks and messengers would automatically strip these parameters.
I started using URLCheck on Android and SO MANY links have some kind of tracker that you can drop and not lose any functionality. Things like Signal (and even Lemmy/Mastodon) could do something similar and throw up a little warning when it encounters a known tracker, then offer to clean the URL for you.
Another advantage is that the clean URLs are a lot more descriptive
For example, see the link in the post body here:
I’m using FairEmail on Android. When tapping a link, thr app detects tracking parameters and offers to remove them. I really like that feature and wish other apps would offer something similar.
adding this list to uBlock Origin helps: https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
best filter maintainer ever
This list is a must.
Of course it does. Firefoxes new ClearURL copy feature is great
This was the final thing that convinced me to give Firefox another go, thank you.
One of us! One of us! Firefox is fucking amazing, just set up all the recommended extensions like ublock origin and privacy badger.
Do people use the share button rather than just copy the URL from the address bar? Am I just really old?
Am I just really old?
Sounds like you have cleaned a few trackballs in your days
Now I just try to keep my regular balls clean.
Pics or didn’t happen.
LemonpartyDOTcom
Keep up the good fight, buddy
Many people use a phone and many people have youtube app on it.
If you use youtube on a mobile app rather than a browser, it doesn’t have an address bar
Never use an app for what should be a web page.
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websites are sandboxed while apps have almost full access. So, no, they don’t.
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Apps are legitimately great.
Except they are mostly just lobotomized websites where you can’t copy the text or save media to your local device.
But it’s blockable on websites. Firefox with ublock makes YouTube, Facebook, and instragam a relatively pleasant experience again.
There is other apps like newpipe or grayjay, i havent experienced any ads using them
And I know folks that have never lost money on crypto. Doesn’t make crypto less of a risk.
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Never log in to YouTube
I find it convenient to do so to follow channels.
Then use newpipe.
free tube!
Copy clean URLs with ClearURL
This extension will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy when browsing through the Internet.
Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearurls/lckanjgmijmafbedllaakclkaicjfmnk/
Heads up, I had to remove this extension on my browser because some websites would get stuck in a redirect loop because it’d remove the tracking stuff it’d use in a redirect chain. Took me months to figure out what was causing it
Adds?
I thought they always had them?