Because using the GET parameters (everything after the questionmark) for tracking isn’t their originally intended purpose. Which means that there are many sites that do not use them for tracking.
A classic is search engines having the search parameter and page number there. If you were then to copy such a link without the parameters you would just end up on the homepage.
Now, Firefox probably has a list of common tracking parameters and common “legitimate” parameters. But those cannot be guaranteed to be 100 % correct. Leading to the error of someone intending to link to a specific page but ending up linking to something more generic.
@bjoern_tantau Brilliant easy to understand explanation thank you 😃
@bananabob @firefox
I wouldn’t be surprised if that breaks a bunch of weird stuff. But certainly, this is one of those things we shouldn’t need to enable add-ons for IMOI’m not sure if it’s due to a plugin or not, but when I right click a URL in Firefox, one of the options is “Copy without site tracking”.
@BobLefridge @aligorith @bananabob @firefox Built-in feature
@Salty @BobLefridge @aligorith @firefox I think that is a typo. Shold read “Built-in failure”
@BobLefridge @aligorith @firefox Yes but, there are two options. Why do you need the tracking on a link that you are going to share?
I just wish that I could remove the option to copy text from the image because I’ve never once wanted to do that but I have hit the option a gazillion times
