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Why would you disable "dom.text_fragments.enabled"? Why "privacy.query_stripping.strip_on_share.enabled"?

The latter, especially, seems helpful.

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`dom.text_fragments.enabled` to remove "Copy link to highlight" on right-click. Yes, it can be useful, but I never use it and the very rare occasion of needing to use it when opening a page, I can just search it myself.

`privacy.query_stripping.strip_on_share.enabled` to remove "Copy clean link". I would rather it just did that clean link thing automatically, but I don't actually care about clean links -- it's just annoying having two "copy link" next to each other (especially with one which is greyed out 99% of the time!)


It strips query params used for tracking. Has it never bothered you when you click share on Instagram or YouTube and it inserts a unique-to-you "share ID" in the URL? I was burned by this once, now every time I copy a share URL from a social media platform I first paste it into my text editor and remove all of the privacy invasive tracking cruft.

As an aside I think it's only matter of time before this is done without query params and instead each share link is generated just for you.


You may be interested in the ClearURLs extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/



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