Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate

• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨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?

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  • 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…

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah interesting!

      That explains why I don’t see it!

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    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If the link it’s the same for everyone then they should have definitely used firefox.com or a dedicated domain, not domain.tld/garbage

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You sure it’s not WhatsApp that’s link-shortening?

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      • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes because the option to remove the advertisement link is inside Firefox. It might be that meta and Mozilla got some monetary agreement and this is even worse

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨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…

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  • loutr@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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