Reviews for Remove FBclid and UTM
Remove FBclid and UTM by StevieB
Review by Beachbubba
Rated 4 out of 5
by Beachbubba, 4 years agoIs this extension still relevant in Firefox versions 91+?
Edit: Also, does it play well with uBlock Origin?
Edit: Also, does it play well with uBlock Origin?
Developer response
posted 3 years agoYes, absolutely! Right now it is currently working on Firefox 95+. Sorry for not responding to this for so long, I must not have seen the notification.
25 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16817970, a month agoI found some more tracking parameters.
Because many sites are realizing we massively block or spoof the referrer header, they started putting them in the URL instead. Here are a few I found:
?referrer=
?ref=
?r=
The last one is probably hard to safely remove because it may be a legit parameter for a dynamic site. Props to whoever thought of using that to smuggle the referrer. - Rated 5 out of 5by Hamtaro, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vindikato, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Кек, 2 years agoThanks to the author for the actual addon. Sir, could you please add ysclid for yandex search engine. We are very much looking forward to it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vedun, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andy Mabbett, 2 years agoWorks in the background and does it so well I often forget I have it installed.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14907179, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13361818, 3 years agoVery nice so far.
Would it be possible to also get rid of "xtor" parameter? - Rated 5 out of 5by int_ua, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by TK, 4 years agoDoes what it needs to do ; looking for the Github URL to contribute though to contribute :)
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHere you go. It's on the "Support site" link/button but I'll add it to the description too!
https://github.com/sbedell/web-extensions/tree/master/queryParamsRemover - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14075751, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by madflower, 4 years agoI think it works good so far!
If you did the copy link url thing working like in the previous comment, it isn't removing fbclid with the ascii escape charactors in the url like:
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dataplicity.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIw&h=AjU
(greatly shortened for readability)Developer response
posted 4 years agoI haven't done anything for "Copy link location" yet. It would require obtaining clipboard permissions and adding significantly to the codebase, so I'm probably not getting around to it any time soon to be honest. Best thing is just open the link in a new tab and then copy/paste that URL. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 5702412, 4 years agoJust tested it with Firefox 76.0.1.
Let me update my review:
What's good:
It does stop the end site from seeing the ?fbclid parameter. I reconfirmed this with mitmproxy. (Live HTTP headers on the other hand showed the unchanged HTTP request).
How it could be better:
1) Changes the URL presented by facebook to the end URL, so that facebook doesn't know you've clicked on a link, and
2) All right-click copy link to copy the end link, rather than the facebook link.
CheersDeveloper response
posted 4 years agoFacebook uses some php link redirector thing when you click outgoing links. When the URL finishes loading (using the one you posted as an example) does it redirect to "https://www.theonion.com/tyson-promises-meatpackers-who-die-from-coronavirus-wil-1843678529"? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15940033, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by arobinski, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 嘸, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Alexis Prel, 5 years agoIt simply does the job, thanks a lot for that!
I did wish it would also remove the fbclid when I do a right click + "Copy link location", to share URLs via e-mails. Not sure if that's possible, but I would definitely love to see that!Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for your review! Going to start looking into removing fbclid and utms on copy link location and getting that into a new release ASAP! - Rated 5 out of 5by Maxim Borkunov, 5 years agoWorks like a charm. Thank you for your job.
Noticed a site which also uses utm_referrer
yandex.com/news
It's a news aggregator. When you open an article and follow to origin sources then utm_referrer is addedDeveloper response
posted 5 years agoThanks for your review! I'll add utm_referrer to the list in the next update. - Rated 5 out of 5by Cybo1927, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12418710, 5 years agoIt simply does the job. It should be in the top places in privacy category.