We’ll be redoing link handling (displaying) in the near future and there’s an outstanding question we need to answer.
For a while we’ve been thinking of having at least a plugin that would strip tracking info off of url’s/links. After we were initially thinking about that I noticed firefox has a “copy link without site tracking” option when you right click on a link and that’s when I started thinking about making this a built it feature. A built in feature is great, but there’s a possibility we’d kill a query parameter that a user needs for the link to work, so we need a way to get the original link to.
So the thought here was to follow firefox’s lead and make the default actions use the original links and then have an option via a context menu or something to remove the tracking. But now I’m thinking we should reverse that and have a normal click of a link remove the tracking and make you go out of your way to get the version with the tracking.
It seems like we’d probably need a preference for this, probably in the privacy section, so basically we need to decide what the default is.
So what do you all think?
- Default to unmodified links
- Default to removing tracking parameters
If you have any questions or comments please share them 