Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs

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I Can :has Browser Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 148 – Firefox Nightly News
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Currently still in Nightly and only on 'Copy Link'. Still nice progress though.

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There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with "utm_"

most of the time sharing utm links isn't helpful to the origin as if you copy a link from your email it'll have medium=email, but actually should now be medium=direct

Anything is better than nothing. Besides, it's still useful because you can see where the original link was copied from, and you still have the referrer header