Yes. Buried in the settings there's an option to disable it

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[–] 29 points 11 months ago (30 children)

What is your "privacy" browser... And how did you disable this?

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 11 months ago (29 children)

    It's Firefox, and there's a new "sharing" option in the menu that contains a toggle to disable this

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    Does this happen when you copypaste the URL?

    Because messing with the clipboard is a really scary thing.

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  • [+] [S] -7 points 11 months ago (15 children)

    No, only when using the share button

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    I see you took the screenshot on your phone, I just tried it on mine and had no issues getting the proper link, even after updating it as I wrote this comment.

    Can you describe more about where you encountered it?

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    It's only for links shared via WhatsApp for some reason. Not sure how they know you're sharing to WhatsApp... (Edit: firefox implements a custom share widget instead of the one provided by the OS, so they get a callback when the user selects the target)

    OP is wrong about the "unique" part tho, I get the same URL as them.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Just tried sharing to WhatsApp, using the Firefox share button, on android. Link is normal.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Well I tried it before commenting, and I see the same thing as OP... I'm on Firefox stable 145.0.1.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Weird. I'm on 145.0.1 (Build #2016126887), I even tried going to arstechnica.com in case it only happened on certain websites, but the urls Firefox shares to whatsapp are totally normal for me. Some sort of A/B testing?

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  • [–] [S] -4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    They detect sharing on WhatsApp and inject the tracking link only on that case. It didn't do this yesterday so there's a chance it's on a/b testing

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    You sure it's not WhatsApp that's link-shortening?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Then just don't use it? Just copy the link from the url bar, the link is not even unique and it's the same for everyone and other than that you can delete the link so i don't see the problem, is really that wrong for a browser that risk to be oppressed by the chrorium monopoly to advertise itself? It's not even invasive...

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Sharing is much quicker than copy/pasting manually, especially with direct share targets.

    It might not be the end of the world, but Mozilla really should have made the "feature" opt-in, or at least give us a heads up.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (2 children)

    DDG tracks its users? Is there any definitive proof of this?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    https://factually.co/fact-checks/technology/does-duckduckgo-track-you-809f45

    https://blog.ssuiteoffice.com/articles/general/duckduckgo-privacy-controversy.htm

    tldr; DDG specifically allows Microsoft, a company that profits from collecting specific user data, to collect some (anonymous) user data through its ad program.

    I don't think it's proven that DDG creates user profiles like Google does, more that there is a concern that they receive their money from Microsoft, or that they have agreements with Microsoft to send them any data in the first place.

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