Mozilla Firefox 102 was released today with a new privacy feature that strips parameters from URLs that are used to track you around the web.

Numerous companies, including Facebook, Marketo, Olytics, and HubSpot, utilize custom URL query parameters to track clicks on links.

With the release of Firefox 102, Mozilla has added the new ‘Query Parameter Stripping’ feature that automatically strips various query parameters used for tracking from URLs when you open them, whether that be by clicking on a link or simply pasting the URL into the address bar.

  • @papercut
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    92 years ago

    Didn’t Firefox already have this feature? I remember deleting the ClearUrls addon just a few releases ago.

    • @zksmk
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      82 years ago

      Close, uBlock Origin had it, but not Firefox itself.