<story><title>ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs</title><url>https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eythian</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t really know how I feel about having the browser mess with URLs without the user engaging it deliberately. It feels to me something that should perhaps be approached with caution. On the other hand, it does make sense. It&amp;#x27;s a tricky one.</text></item><item><author>ronjouch</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d love if Firefox&amp;#x27;s built-in Tracking Protection did without an addon the job ClearURLs does, so two months ago I created&lt;p&gt;Bug 1697982: &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Firefox Tracking Protection should protect against URL&amp;#x2F;queryparam-based tracking (like ClearURLs&amp;#x2F;NeatURL addons do)&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please vote for the bug if you&amp;#x27;d like it too.&lt;p&gt;Also, I see a few interesting comments in this HN thread; this evening when the dust settles, I&amp;#x27;ll aggregate &amp;amp; bring them to the bug for consideration if&amp;#x2F;when fixing this bug is considered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s exactly the kind of thing user agents should do. If it&amp;#x27;s good for the user, they should do it by default for everyone.</text></comment>
<story><title>ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs</title><url>https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eythian</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t really know how I feel about having the browser mess with URLs without the user engaging it deliberately. It feels to me something that should perhaps be approached with caution. On the other hand, it does make sense. It&amp;#x27;s a tricky one.</text></item><item><author>ronjouch</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d love if Firefox&amp;#x27;s built-in Tracking Protection did without an addon the job ClearURLs does, so two months ago I created&lt;p&gt;Bug 1697982: &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Firefox Tracking Protection should protect against URL&amp;#x2F;queryparam-based tracking (like ClearURLs&amp;#x2F;NeatURL addons do)&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please vote for the bug if you&amp;#x27;d like it too.&lt;p&gt;Also, I see a few interesting comments in this HN thread; this evening when the dust settles, I&amp;#x27;ll aggregate &amp;amp; bring them to the bug for consideration if&amp;#x2F;when fixing this bug is considered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkwater</author><text>Well that&amp;#x27;s exactly the kind of job that an (opinionated) User Agent should do for you. &amp;lt;aybe configurable, maybe not. You can always change your agent (so, browser) if you don&amp;#x27;t like its opinion.</text></comment>