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Yay! Now we get ads in shared links! (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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By default now Firefox for Android shares an extra link with TRACKING for advertising itself. This is the features that everyone loves.

Ok, buried in the menu there's an option to disable this shit. But it's infuriating that a "please spam my friends and track the opening rate of my links" option is enabled by default

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[–] faizalr@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it a #Firefox or a #WhatsApp issue?

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Firefox. They detect when you are sharing on WhatsApp and inject the tracking link (when sharing to other apps it doesn’t happen)

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Interesting. I didn't know that they could tell where something is shared to. I generally just copy things but I also basically never use WhatsApp so that might be why I haven't seen this.

[–] lisp@social.vivaldi.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@Ziglin I would only use Signal.....Anything Fecesbook, I stay away from.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If only more people felt that way.

[–] lisp@social.vivaldi.net -1 points 3 days ago

@Ziglin What is Whatsapp?