Open Bug 1899275 Opened 8 months ago Updated 8 months ago

Add new API for removing tracking parameters from URLs

Categories

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement, P5)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
Frontend
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: tdulcet, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [design-decision-needed])

Firefox as of 102 supports removing tracking parameters from URLs when they are clicked (bug 1706602). Firefox 120 added a new "Copy Link Without Site Tracking" item to the context menu (bug 1823332).

Please expose this functionality of removing tracking parameters from arbitrary URLs to extensions in the form of a new WebExtension API, so that add-on developers do not need to reimplement Firefox's code or maintain their own list of query parameters to strip. This would allow add-on developers to easily support more use cases for removing tracking parameters and thus further improve user privacy.

Severity: -- → N/A
Priority: -- → P5
Whiteboard: [design-decision-needed]
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