Closed Bug 1836739 Opened 2 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Strip out Yandex's tracking parameter from URLs

Categories

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Privacy: Anti-Tracking
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: timhuang, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Parameters to be stripped: yclid, _openstat
Reason: Microsoft adds these parameters to every ad link on the Bing page. Here[1] describes how they use them to do ad/analytics tracking. It matches the category of Cross-site tracking using URL decoration that carries information about the user: their identity, interactions on the linking site, or other information. (See our antitracking policy). To prevent navigational cross-site tracking, we strip out this parameter from URLs if query parameter stripping is enabled.

[1] https://yandex.com/support/direct/statistics/url-tags.html

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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