Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping – gHacks Tech News

Bookmarked Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping by Martin Brinkmann (ghacks.net)

Facebook has started to use a different URL scheme for site links to combat URL stripping technologies that browsers such as Firefox or Brave use to improve privacy and prevent user tracking. […]

The main issue here is that there it is no longer possible to remove the tracking part of the URL, as Facebook merged it with part of the required web address. Removing the entire construct after the ? would open the main Facebook page of Ghacks Technology News, but it won’t open the linked post.

I don’t read FB but I typically strip any parameters from the urls of tweets. I guess this is the next stage.