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Strip destination tracking parameters? #2197

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pde opened this issue Oct 17, 2018 · 4 comments
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Strip destination tracking parameters? #2197

pde opened this issue Oct 17, 2018 · 4 comments
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pde commented Oct 17, 2018

In addition to wrapping links, a number of large first party platforms add tracking parameters to URLs, where they can be detected by analytics at the destination page. For instance I just saw facebook ad this tracking parameter to a link:

http://www.oracleopenworld.org/?fbclid=IwAR3waKwwsd--w_IkaPwl4hBbvD-R3bww9pi-53A5Np5eRvJG75E

This I think is new from Facebook, but Google Analytics has long added various utm_* parameters that are similar:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/manafort-jury-suggests-it-cannot-come-to-a-consensus-on-a-single-count/2018/08/21/a2478ac0-a559-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f06ba6ed2f25

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Duplicate of #681, I think.

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We have a PR specifically to remove "fbclid" from outgoing Facebook links: #2207.

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iVoka commented Dec 22, 2019

We have a PR specifically to remove "fbclid" from outgoing Facebook links: #2207.

@ghostwords - I've been using the extension for about a week on Opera and it does not remove Facebook's url parameter "fbclid" from YouTube video thumbnails, others seem to not have it.

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@iVoka Could you open a new issue including steps for how to reproduce the problem please?

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