I've heard some confusion about the feature when talking to people about "Copy without site tracking" feature. Opening this bug to keep track on it. Writing my notes down here: * We don't remove trackers from the destination with this feature site. The destination site can still run tracking scripts. * One possible interpretation about "Copy without site tracking" is that websites can tell when a user clicks "Copy" and the "without site tracking" means that we don't notify the website about the copy event. This is not true. * We also strip query parameters that don't directly track users. Changing the name would allow us to do more of these, without implying that the removed parts of the URL were "site tracking". It would make the feature more general. * It might also disincentivizes websites from breaking the feature, due to the anti-tracking part of the feature just being a side product. * The string is shorter, therefore the context menu in the awesome bar stays shorter. I think "Copy Trimmed Link" conveys the feature more concisely. I know that there is a cost with renaming features: Docs need to be updated, users need to learn about the "new feature". This bug is for evaluating changing the name.
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I've heard some confusion about the feature when talking to people about "Copy without site tracking" feature. Opening this bug to keep track on it. Writing my notes down here: * We don't remove trackers from the destination with this feature site. The destination site can still run tracking scripts. * One possible interpretation about "Copy without site tracking" is that websites can tell when a user clicks "Copy" and the "without site tracking" means that we don't notify the website about the copy event. This is not true. * We also strip query parameters that don't directly track users. Changing the name would allow us to do more of these, without implying that the removed parts of the URL were "site tracking". It would make the feature more general. * We might not remove all query parameters that are related to site tracking. * It might also disincentivizes websites from breaking the feature, due to the anti-tracking part of the feature just being a side product. * The string is shorter, therefore the context menu in the awesome bar stays shorter. I think "Copy Trimmed Link" conveys the feature more concisely. I know that there is a cost with renaming features: Docs need to be updated, users need to learn about the "new feature". This bug is for evaluating changing the name.
I've heard some confusion about the feature when talking to people about "Copy without site tracking" feature. Opening this bug to keep track on it. Writing my notes down here: * We don't remove trackers from the destination site with this feature. The destination site can still run tracking scripts. * One possible interpretation about "Copy without site tracking" is that websites can tell when a user clicks "Copy" and the "without site tracking" means that we don't notify the website about the copy event. This is not true. * We also strip query parameters that don't directly track users. Changing the name would allow us to do more of these, without implying that the removed parts of the URL were "site tracking". It would make the feature more general. * We might not remove all query parameters that are related to site tracking. * It might also disincentivizes websites from breaking the feature, due to the anti-tracking part of the feature just being a side product. * The string is shorter, therefore the context menu in the awesome bar stays shorter. I think "Copy Trimmed Link" conveys the feature more concisely. I know that there is a cost with renaming features: Docs need to be updated, users need to learn about the "new feature". This bug is for evaluating changing the name.
I've heard some confusion about the feature when talking to people about "Copy without site tracking" feature. Opening this bug to keep track on it. Writing my notes down here: * We don't remove trackers from the destination site with this feature. The destination site can still run tracking scripts. * One possible interpretation about "Copy without site tracking" is that websites can tell when a user clicks "Copy" and the "without site tracking" means that we don't notify the website about the copy event. This is not true. * We also strip query parameters that don't directly track users. Changing the name would allow us to do more of these, without implying that the removed parts of the URL were "site tracking". It would make the feature more general. * We might not remove all query parameters that are related to site tracking. And we won't ever be able to do so. * It might also disincentivizes websites from breaking the feature, due to the anti-tracking part of the feature just being a side product. * The string is shorter, therefore the context menu in the awesome bar stays shorter. I think "Copy Trimmed Link" conveys the feature more concisely. I know that there is a cost with renaming features: Docs need to be updated, users need to learn about the "new feature". This bug is for evaluating changing the name.
I've heard some confusion about the feature when talking to people about "Copy without site tracking" feature. Opening this bug to keep track on it. Writing my notes down here: * We don't remove trackers from the destination site with this feature. The destination site can still run tracking scripts. [\[1\]](https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/copy-link-without-site-tracking-feature-logic-issues/m-p/58298/highlight/true#M20552) * One possible interpretation about "Copy without site tracking" is that websites can tell when a user clicks "Copy" and the "without site tracking" means that we don't notify the website about the copy event. This is not true. * We also strip query parameters that don't directly track users. Changing the name would allow us to do more of these, without implying that the removed parts of the URL were "site tracking". It would make the feature more general. * We might not remove all query parameters that are related to site tracking. And we won't ever be able to do so. * It might also disincentivizes websites from breaking the feature, due to the anti-tracking part of the feature just being a side product. * The string is shorter, therefore the context menu in the awesome bar stays shorter. I think "Copy Trimmed Link" conveys the feature more concisely. I know that there is a cost with renaming features: Docs need to be updated, users need to learn about the "new feature". This bug is for evaluating changing the name.