What do you mean? This is supposed to be sent to my friends. To a friend, a real message would be like “I’m using Firefox, get it at firefox.com” and not “I’m using Firefox, get it at domain.tld/garbage”.
This time the “short” link isn’t unique, but they still did this for tracking purposes and not for “convenience”. I didn’t check it but it will definitely resolve to something like hxxp://Firefox.domain ?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=message&utm_campaign=promo&utm_id=wa-spam&utm_term=share&utm_content=click for maximum tracking analysis
Edit: TIL Lemmy automatically removes tracking tags from URLs… I had to type again my delicious tracking link…
Edit2: Lemmy removes tracking tags even from code blocks 😲
Edit3: Lemmy removes tracking tags even with an invalid protocol
Edit4: Lemmy removes tracking tags even with invalid TLD
That’s a helpful analysis! So there is zero tracking in there. It is just anonymous measurement of a campaign, which is perfectly fine. It is NOT person specific.
What i didn’t understand is if this link to Firefox was inserted by you at all. It looks like it was appended to a completely unrelated link that you wanted to share. So Firefox hijacked your message to insert a second link. Is that correct? Because that would infuriate me. I found this seeing in my Firefox and it defaulted to be active.
What do you mean? This is supposed to be sent to my friends. To a friend, a real message would be like “I’m using Firefox, get it at firefox.com” and not “I’m using Firefox, get it at domain.tld/garbage”.
This time the “short” link isn’t unique, but they still did this for tracking purposes and not for “convenience”. I didn’t check it but it will definitely resolve to something like
hxxp://Firefox.domain ?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=message&utm_campaign=promo&utm_id=wa-spam&utm_term=share&utm_content=clickfor maximum tracking analysisEdit: TIL Lemmy automatically removes tracking tags from URLs… I had to type again my delicious tracking link…
Edit2: Lemmy removes tracking tags even from code blocks 😲
Edit3: Lemmy removes tracking tags even with an invalid protocol
Edit4: Lemmy removes tracking tags even with invalid TLD
That’s a helpful analysis! So there is zero tracking in there. It is just anonymous measurement of a campaign, which is perfectly fine. It is NOT person specific.
What i didn’t understand is if this link to Firefox was inserted by you at all. It looks like it was appended to a completely unrelated link that you wanted to share. So Firefox hijacked your message to insert a second link. Is that correct? Because that would infuriate me. I found this seeing in my Firefox and it defaulted to be active.
Yes, Firefox detected that I shared to Whatsapp, then added the second link at the end of my message. I was pissed