• Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
    212·
    1 year ago

    I feel like it would be better as a toggle in the settings? I wonder if they envision it as something that’s always enabled for everyone in the future.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      It’s a selection in the right click menu. How much more optional do you need it to be?

      • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I would prefer to have only one of the options in the menu - the one I want to use. I’m not going to change my mind on whether I want trackers stripped on a day-by-day basis, and I think having both taking up space at the same time is bad UX.

        • tqgibtngo@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          You can consider using Stonecrusher’s “simpleMenuWizard” to apply custom CSS to hide a menu item. (Disclaimers: I’m not affiliated with the developer, and I haven’t used this myself.)

          https://github.com/stonecrusher/simpleMenuWizard

          The simpleMenuWizard “link-context.css” file contains a commented list of the IDs of most of the menuitem elements of link context menus.

          https://github.com/stonecrusher/simpleMenuWizard/blob/master/simpleMenuWizard/link-context.css

          As listed there, the “Copy Link” menuitem element’s ID is “context-copylink”. If you want to hide that menu item, you would uncomment that line in the list (by removing the ‘/*’ at the beginning of the line) as described in Step 5 of the simpleMenuWizard instructions.

          At the time when I’m writing this reply, the aforementioned list hasn’t yet been updated to include the “Copy Link Without Site Tracking” menuitem’s ID. If you want to hide that menu item, sorry I can’t check its ID for you right now, but here’s how you can find it:

          Enable and open the Browser Toolbox.

          https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/browser_toolbox/

          In the Browser Toolbox, click its 3-dots icon to get an options menu. Click “Disable popup auto-hide”, to make context menus persistent. Invoke a context menu on a link (the menu should persist). Use the toolbox inspector’s element picker to pick the menu item that you want to hide. Then you can find that menuitem element’s “id” attribute in the inspector. (Open the 3-dots menu again and click “Disable popup auto-hide” again to re-enable auto-hide.)

    • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I assume they’ve modeled it after ClearURLs, which exists as an addon here, and as a uBlock filter here. The short answer is it’s a ton of whitelisted regex.

  • phorq@lemmy.ml
    107·
    1 year ago

    That sounds cool, but I’m imagining trying to explain this to a grandparent after setting them up with Firefox and they just want to copy and paste but are overwhelmed with options in the drop-down. I understand the idea you won’t always want to remove the tracking, but maybe if it was a keybinding suggestion similar to using ctrl-shift-v to paste without formatting you could use shift to copy without tracking.

    Edit: if someone else has another idea for making this easy to use but not confuse the tech illiterate and to still allow non-modified links to be copied when needed I’m open to ideas.