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Google client parameter removed when allow referral marketing enabled

Open metametapod opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

The client parameter on Google searches is currently removed by ClearURLs, even when the Allow referral marketing preference is enabled. For example:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=query

Becomes:

https://www.google.com/search?q=query

My understanding is that this is an affiliate tag that generates revenue for Mozilla. It should arguably be exempt when this preference is set.

metametapod avatar May 31 '24 07:05 metametapod

I also noticed that Google started returning 502s whenever the client tag is stripped. Disabling ClearURLs fixes the issue.

mcilloni avatar May 31 '24 13:05 mcilloni