There’s a ESR release.
It’s Firefox, and there’s a new “sharing” option in the menu that contains a toggle to disable this
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
stoy@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Does this happen when you copypaste the URL?
Because messing with the clipboard is a really scary thing.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
No, only when using the share button
stoy@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I see you took the screenshot on your phone, I just tried it on mine and had no issues getting the proper link, even after updating it as I wrote this comment.
Can you describe more about where you encountered it?
loutr@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
It’s only for links shared via WhatsApp for some reason. Not sure how they know you’re sharing to WhatsApp…
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They detect sharing on WhatsApp and inject the tracking link only on that case. It didn’t do this yesterday so there’s a chance it’s on a/b testing
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 7 hours ago
Then just don’t use it? Just copy the link from the url bar, the link is not even unique and it’s the same for everyone and other than that you can delete the link so i don’t see the problem, is really that wrong for a browser that risk to be oppressed by the chrorium monopoly to advertise itself? It’s not even invasive…
loutr@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Sharing is much quicker than copy/pasting manually, especially with direct share targets.
It might not be the end of the world, but Mozilla really should have made the “feature” opt-in, or at least give us a heads up.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They promote themselves as a privacy browser, so they should have placed a splash screen “help us spread”, with the toggle to add the ads in my chats. Having that link on by default is not pretty, especially in WhatsApp conversations where you share ten links
arin@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Here is a sanitized Firefox fork librewolf.net