sindresorhus/caprine

ADD trim facebook tracking from pasted urls

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#1,282 opened on Feb 20, 2020

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Description

use case:

a friend sends me an interesting link I copy the link with Context→Copy Link

expected:

I get a clean link to paste

actual:

I get a looong FB tracking link, which redirects my recipient to FB instead of the actual link

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Research direction
Look at the paste event handler in the main chat view. Add logic to detect and remove Facebook tracking parameters from URLs before inserting into the input field.
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typescriptnodejs
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desktop
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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75