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

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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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