2022-07-19: Review of "Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping"
This figure, from the original blog post , does not concern "fbclid" for external links. The top URL is a deep link to this post on facebook.com and the URL shown in the dev tools is for @ghacksnet Facebook account page . Both URLs still have tracking URL query parameters of the form: " ?__cft__[0]=... ". Yesterday I saw " Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping ", tweeted by @schneierblog , which was a summary of the original blog post of the same name, " Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping ," by Martin Brinkmann ( @ghacks ). I read with interest because of the implications on web archiving, since lookup by URL is almost exclusively the manner of accessing web archives. In summary, I cannot replicate any of the statements in the original blog post by Brinkmann. The blog post begins with a discussion about Firefox's recent update which allows the user to specify strip...