Lately I’ve noticed some mainstream sites injection tracking links into literally every link on their site.

When I hover over it, it shows the correct link at the bottom of my browser, but if I click it or copy it, it takes me to a hijacked tracker link.

Then I can’t even get the original link without having my activity tracked.

How do I get the original link that appears at the bottom of my browser?

  • BuckShot@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    I don’t have an extention on FF but whenever I copy a link there’s an option to also copy clean link. I’m not home, but I believe this is associated with my search engine being SearXNG.

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      6 months ago

      This is actually a rather new feature in the firefox browser unrelated to searx.

        • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 months ago

          Vanilla.

          The only reason I didn’t mention it is because it’s for copying links, whereas the extension should do it while opening, without needing to copy it first.

          • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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            Thats a level of convenience that will probably get me to grab the extension, but Im glad firefox has that as a feature anyway