I know Will turned down an obscene amount of money for it, and it was prolly the right decision, but I'm still surprised a sequel never got made given how popular Elf continues to be.
Did you confirm this? I tried a handful of different links, and it retained certain necessary parameters. Might depend on the link and how Firefox reads the link. Guessing it's using regex.
For some people it's easy, for others it isn't, and/or they're afraid of messing it up.
This is the secondary reason why I created SwapMyOS, a GrapheneOS installation service that kicks back a percentage of every order to the GrapheneOS nonprofit to keep it funded.
Primary reason was to keep GrapheneOS alive and funded.
Or at least the option to make it the default. I could see some situations where someone may want to test a link with non-identifying parameters (like identifying the campaign source), and not wanting to have that stripped from the URL by default.
But I get you, from a consumer perspective I'd also want it as my default.
In the meantime, there's ClearURLs or uBlock Origin with filter lists.
Indeed, not all UTM tracking parameters are harmful. For example, you could have parameters like ?src=email&campaign=summer2023 that would denote how users engaged with the URL, without necessarily identifying them.
Many platforms, however, will try to identify you and collect as much as possible.
Not familiar with ScriptSafe—wonder if anyone here can confirm it's necessary if you're already using uBlock Origin. I would err on the side of "no," but you never know.
A few years ago, I came across a tool that did exactly this. It might've been a browser extension... When you clicked a link that had trackers, rather than providing a clean URL, it sent incorrect/invalid parameters to the tracking link.
Not to my knowledge. It's absolutely pathetic and honestly kinda psychotic that you're not allowed to understand your own genealogy and medical history without giving up pretty much everything about yourself. Forever.
Because unlike a compromised password, you can't just hop on the computer and change your genes (yet??).
Elf.
I know Will turned down an obscene amount of money for it, and it was prolly the right decision, but I'm still surprised a sequel never got made given how popular Elf continues to be.