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[FYI] Bugzilla issue suggesting core Firefox Tracking Protection should protect from URL/queryparam-based tracking #106

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@ronjouch

Hi, ClearURLs users and contributors.

Just a "FYI" issue to publicize that I created Firefox Bug 1697982 - Firefox Tracking Protection should protect against URL/queryparam-based tracking (like addons ClearURLs/NeatURL do), which suggests the protection offered by addons like this one should be baked in Firefox.

  • It was received positively by Mozilla folks, who acknowledge the rationale.
  • No promises yet, but it's "on [their] radar & roadmap".
  • Please complement with extra information that may help Mozilla understand / analyze / scope this better.
  • Please refrain from noise-only "Me too" / "+1" comments. Use Bugzilla's Vote/Follow features if you don't have anything to add.

@ authors / maintainers: not expecting you keep this "bug" open, of course. Feel free to close now or anytime in the future. Thanks for your work 🙂.

Link to similar issue in addon NeatURL.

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  1. pinned this issue on Mar 29, 2021
  2. OJFord commented on May 6, 2021

    @OJFord

    Use Bugzilla's Vote

    And please do do that - I suspect it being built into FF is the most likely way this functionality is going to get into FF for Android.

  3. Korb commented on Jul 12, 2025

    @Korb

    Emma Zühlcke [:emz]
    This feature has been available in ETP strict for a while already. Closing the bug.
    Status: NEW → RESOLVED
    Closed: 2024-06-01 07:57 PDT
    Resolution: --- → FIXED

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1697982#c16

  4. Jolg42 commented on Aug 4, 2025

    @Jolg42

    I found that Firefox 102 introduced built-in removal of tracking query string parameters.
    -> In Privacy & Security settings, ensure Enhanced Tracking Protection is set to Strict (required to activate the query string feature). The default set of removed query params is limited, but you can configure your own via the privacy.query_stripping.strip_list pref as a space-separated list.

    I found this page documenting it (no idea if it's up-to-date)
    https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/antitracking/anti-tracking/query-stripping/index.html

    What is the ship state of this protection in Firefox?

    Query stripping is enabled in release in ETP strict with an initial list of query params:

        mc_eid
        oly_anon_id
        oly_enc_id
        __s
        vero_id
        _hsenc
        mkt_tok
        fbclid
    
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