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Consumer Products => Avast Secure Browser => Beta Channel => Topic started by: polonus on July 21, 2020, 04:50:40 PM

Title: Could avast secure browser also remove fbclid & gclid tracking parameters?
Post by: polonus on July 21, 2020, 04:50:40 PM
Brave browser now does this for facebook en google clid parameter tracking.

Could avast secure browser do a similar track-blocking,
so users aren't being tracked all over the Internet through pages they visit?

Like: https://example.org?fbclid=uniquevalue & https://example.org?gclid=uniquevalue.

Read on how Google does this (unencrypted) here:
https://deedpolloffice.com/blog/articles/decoding-gclid-parameter

polonus (avast secure browser beta-tester)
Title: Re: Could avast secure browser also remove fbclid & gclid tracking parameters?
Post by: polonus on July 23, 2020, 12:50:18 AM
As long as the browser of choice does not have this functionality,
Against tracking parameters (and more) install:

Extension ClearURLs for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/clearurls/

ClearURLs for Chromium based browsers (as Avast Secure Browser)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearurls/lckanjgmijmafbedllaakclkaicjfmnk

polonus