Claims that Facebook is encrypting links against ‘browser feature to remove URL tracking parameters’ – GIGAZINE

Website URLs may contain parameters to track user information, but there are many web extensions that remove them automatically, and Firefox web browser will also be on June 28, 2022. Officially, we added a function to automatically delete parameters. It is said that Facebook has started encoding its parameters to counter these features.

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A list of characters starting with “? Fbclid” could be added to the end of the URL for Facebook posts and ads, which served as a query parameter to track information.

However, the parameter that started with “? Fbclid” is gone at the time of article creation, and is now a string starting with “pfbid” with the unique URL of the post. For example, GigaZenarticleThe post is like “https://www.facebook.com/GIGAZINE/posts/pfbid02kYMcM2ExtiZ1aAxtrrDTGkUmvC3s3Y8fEUtbHkp2KHZ3HWrcTtbXUhx9y8pq8kZUl”.

It’s confirmed that different users may have different strings starting with “pfbid”, and social site Hacker News reports that “Facebook has started using URLs that appear to contain encrypted information.” Leads were prepared and discussions held. “Isn’t this a violation of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?”human voiceOn the other hand, “Isn’t that just changing the URL format?”OpinionIt can also be seen.