Other annoyances ?

[vinny86]

Can the addon be included to remove other tracking parameters ? On mozilla, for the MHT archive addon there so many variations

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-archive-format/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-archive-format/?src=hp-dl-featured https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-archive-format/?src=cb-dl-featured and so on ...

On PCWORLD

https://www.pcworld.com/article/257569/the_roots_of_social_networking.html#tk.hp_fv https://www.pcworld.com/article/257569/the_roots_of_social_networking.html#tk.hp_ess https://www.pcworld.com/article/257569/the_roots_of_social_networking.html#tk.hp_new

[rik]

Those are specific to every website so I'm not willing to maintain code for those.

Checking if a <link rel="canonical"> exists could help on some websites.

[vinny86]

It would be awesome if you could though, i think the "src" thing is pretty common... and "tk.hp_" looks like "track...." Maybe there are more sites out there that use these parameters.

[davidbgk]

Another example with the recent tracking added to Medium:

https://medium.com/@bryanlanders/the-age-of-the-workflow-designer-9e9b43dbf9f#.uwti9poqu https://medium.com/civic-technology/rethinking-data-portals-30b66f00585d#.wg8zw1iog

I understand that adding specific exceptions is hard to maintain though…

[rik]

Medium has a canonical link so that could be used.

[davidbgk]

I wonder how something like:

history.replaceState(null,'', document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]').href);

Would affect a browsing experience :)