Yes. Buried in the settings there’s an option to disable it

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    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 http://firefox.com/ for maximum tracking analysis

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      2 months ago

      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.

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        2 months ago

        Yes, Firefox detected that I shared to Whatsapp, then added the second link at the end of my message. I was pissed