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

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• iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is your “privacy” browser… And how did you disable this?

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s Firefox, and there’s a new “sharing” option in the menu that contains a toggle to disable this

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    • arin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here is a sanitized Firefox fork librewolf.net

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How exactly are you getting these in the first place? I just tried to share the url but it didn’t do anything odd.

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Does this happen when you copypaste the URL?

      Because messing with the clipboard is a really scary thing.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s a ESR release.

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    • solomonschuler@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t use Firefox, as in, don’t use the official Mozilla release, even that has gone to shit. Pretty much everything has gone to shit, in terms of search results and web browsers. I use librewolf (a fork of firefox) on my laptop and Ironfox on my phone they both by default come with the security features by default. No AI generation built in the browser, no Firefox suggestions, no tracking, none of it. I’ve also stopped using standard search engines like google or DDG and replaced it with marginalia search. This combination has allowed me to eliminate AI generated content and tracking from my browsing experience.

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• nocksock@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Firefox is no longer a privacy browser.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Besides tor, known any other alternatives?

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Femnec on mobile, Librewolf on desktop

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    • Morphite88@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cromite, Fennec

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    • gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid

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    • decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, something like Lynx is probably as private as you get. Might be lacking a few features like, anything graphical. Still relatively usable imo

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• Prime@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is that a unique tracking link? It looks more like a regular short link. I call take news on this one.

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    there’s no reason to use a “short” link when it’s longer than the real “long” link

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    • Prime@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Perhaps, but that does not mean it’s not the case.

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• YgestWefsid@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Here is an option for you to make anonymous complaints, but you will have to let us know who are you first”

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• heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like the duckduckgo browser

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