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Yes. Buried in the settings there's an option to disable it
Is that a unique tracking link? It looks more like a regular short link. I call fake news on this one.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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there's no reason to use a "short" link when it's longer than the real "long" link
Perhaps, but that does not mean it's not the case.
if i see domain.tld/garbage i have to assume they did it for tracking, not the opposite or for "shortening" it
No, that's wrong. All url shorteners work exactly like that. How did you get the initial link anyway?
What do you mean? This is supposed to be sent to my friends. To a friend, a real message would be like "I'm using Firefox, get it at firefox.com" and not "I'm using Firefox, get it at domain.tld/garbage".
This time the "short" link isn't unique, but they still did this for tracking purposes and not for "convenience". I didn't check it but it will definitely resolve to something like hxxp://Firefox.domain ?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=message&utm_campaign=promo&utm_id=wa-spam&utm_term=share&utm_content=click for maximum tracking analysis
Edit: TIL Lemmy automatically removes tracking tags from URLs... I had to type again my delicious tracking link...
Edit2: Lemmy removes tracking tags even from code blocks 😲
Edit3: Lemmy removes tracking tags even with an invalid protocol
Edit4: Lemmy removes tracking tags even with invalid TLD
That's a helpful analysis! So there is zero tracking in there. It is just anonymous measurement of a campaign, which is perfectly fine. It is NOT person specific.
What i didn't understand is if this link to Firefox was inserted by you at all. It looks like it was appended to a completely unrelated link that you wanted to share. So Firefox hijacked your message to insert a second link. Is that correct? Because that would infuriate me. I found this seeing in my Firefox and it defaulted to be active.
Yes, Firefox detected that I shared to Whatsapp, then added the second link at the end of my message. I was pissed
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
How exactly are you getting these in the first place? I just tried to share the url but it didn't do anything odd.
Here is a sanitized Firefox fork https://librewolf.net/
Librewolf my beloved
There's Waterfox as well, but I still prefer Librewolf.
Why's that? Asking as a Firefox user.
Does this happen when you copypaste the URL?
Because messing with the clipboard is a really scary thing.
There's a ESR release.
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.
DDG tracks its users? Is there any definitive proof of this?
https://factually.co/fact-checks/technology/does-duckduckgo-track-you-809f45
https://blog.ssuiteoffice.com/articles/general/duckduckgo-privacy-controversy.htm
tldr; DDG specifically allows Microsoft, a company that profits from collecting specific user data, to collect some (anonymous) user data through its ad program.
I don't think it's proven that DDG creates user profiles like Google does, more that there is a concern that they receive their money from Microsoft, or that they have agreements with Microsoft to send them any data in the first place.
Firefox is no longer a privacy browser.
Besides tor, known any other alternatives?
Femnec on mobile, Librewolf on desktop
Cromite, Fennec
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
"Here is an option for you to anonymously browse, but you will have to let us know where you are going first" type anonymity.
Edit: I forgot to tell anonymity and privacy are two different things. Just telling it because some people might think they serve the same purpose.
I like the duckduckgo browser