Yes. Buried in the settings there’s an option to disable it
What is your “privacy” browser… And how did you disable this?
It’s Firefox, and there’s a new “sharing” option in the menu that contains a toggle to disable this
Does this happen when you copypaste the URL?
Because messing with the clipboard is a really scary thing.
No, only when using the share button
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?
It’s only for links shared via WhatsApp for some reason. Not sure how they know you’re sharing to WhatsApp… (Edit: firefox implements a custom share widget instead of the one provided by the OS, so they get a callback when the user selects the target)
OP is wrong about the “unique” part tho, I get the same URL as them.
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
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
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…
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
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.
Firefox is no longer a privacy browser.
Besides tor, known any other alternatives?
Femnec on mobile, Librewolf on desktop
Cromite, Fennec
