This is a very strange decision. It will be necessary to create a WEB 
standard with a list of "forbidden" parameters, so that other projects that 
might accidentally use the same parameter names do not suffer.

This update may cause mega-corporations to generate parameter names. 
Visually, they will look like a random set of characters, inside they will 
contain an encrypted name with a random initialization vector and a 
checksum to distinguish between friend or enemy.

?vdj1967enxb52p99kiGFskdj785hFyu=kjQGj90sac17E6AJjk8afzmScA

Further you will forbid to use "unreadable" names of parameters? Then they 
will begin to make up random names from readable words. Will you start 
limiting the length of parameter names next? Then you will destroy the 
entire Internet.

среда, 13 октября 2021 г. в 19:59:53 UTC+3, [email protected]: 

> Hi folks,
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 1:37 PM Chris H-C <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> To dveditz's points:
>>
>> > Are you tracking users, or campaigns?
>>
>> Me personally? Neither : ) But to my knowledge from helping with the 
>> implementation of attribution collection in Firefox Telemetry the answer is 
>> campaigns (and other things on that order)[1]. Basically `utm_` params.
>>
>> > do you track cross-site?
>>
>> Again, not me personally : ) But we may have partners driving us traffic, 
>> and we may host the installer on non-first-party eTLD+1s for, I dunno, CDN 
>> reasons? (not sure we do for Desktop, but we don't host our own packages 
>> for Android and iOS as you'd imagine. App Stores. Ick.).
>>
>> > Are you likely to use fbclid= or other known tracker to do so?
>>
>> I doubt that very much. To my knowledge we're interested in 
>> campaign/experiment/branch-level efficacy measurement, not user-level 
>> tracking.
>>
>
> Many thanks to :chutten for raising this, 'cuz otherwise it would have 
> been me.  The attribution that we're talking about is not user-level, but 
> we do use "well known" identifiers: from 
> https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/b822a27de3947d3f4898defac6164e52caf1451b/browser/components/attribution/AttributionCode.jsm#45-54,
>  
> I see:
>
> "source",
> "medium",
> "campaign",
> "content",
> "experiment",
> "variation",
> "ua",
> "dltoken",
>
> These are terms that Firefox's client-side attribution code recognizes  
> It's possible that mozilla.org (bedrock) uses and/or recognizes more.  I 
> believe that the first several of those are "industry standard" terms and 
> while not user-level generally (or at this time), might be blocked were we 
> and others to block more aggressively.  The "dltoken" is a per-download 
> identifier.
>
> Nick
>

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