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When I tap to share a link from Firefox (private window) in my Android
phone, for example into whatsapp, I get something like this:


+++····················· https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/analistas-confirman-putin-quiere-guerra-unica-sorprendente-razon.html

Enviado desde Firefox 🦊 https://mzl.la/3D860mB ·····················++-

The second link is a commercial from Firefox. It expands to a link to
install Firefox (not always the same link: in this Linux machine, it
thinks I'm using an Apple: <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-web-browser/id989804926>)

This is happening maybe since a month ago.

Every time I share a link, I have to delete that part manually. Is there
a setting?

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On Wed, 14 May 2025 21:45:42 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :

Every time I share a link, I have to delete that part manually. Is there
a setting?

Hi Carlos,

I was waiting for someone to help you but since nobody jumped in, I'll try
a bit, but bear in mind I almost never use a web browser on a phone.

That's because the screen is just too tiny for my tired old eyes.
So what I'll suggest below I have NOT tested. It's just an idea to help.

It's a pita that Firefox tacks that promotion onto shared links.
I searched and didn't find yet a built-in setting within Android Firefox to disable the "Sent from Firefox" branding when sharing links, even from a private window.

All I could find were suggested multi-step workarounds such as instead of directly using the "Share" option in Firefox, you could try tapping the
three dots menu next to the address bar. Select "Copy." Then, open WhatsApp
and paste the link into your chat. It's an extra step, but it might be
quicker than manually deleting the text each time. You could try that out.

Sorry I can't be of more help. Hopefully someone else knows more than I do
as I probably use a web browser once or twice a year on an Android phone.

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On 2025-05-15 09:35, Marion wrote:

On Wed, 14 May 2025 21:45:42 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :

Every time I share a link, I have to delete that part manually. Is there
a setting?

Hi Carlos,

I was waiting for someone to help you but since nobody jumped in, I'll try
a bit, but bear in mind I almost never use a web browser on a phone.

That's because the screen is just too tiny for my tired old eyes.
So what I'll suggest below I have NOT tested. It's just an idea to help.

It's a pita that Firefox tacks that promotion onto shared links.
I searched and didn't find yet a built-in setting within Android Firefox to disable the "Sent from Firefox" branding when sharing links, even from a private window.

All I could find were suggested multi-step workarounds such as instead of directly using the "Share" option in Firefox, you could try tapping the
three dots menu next to the address bar. Select "Copy." Then, open WhatsApp and paste the link into your chat. It's an extra step, but it might be quicker than manually deleting the text each time. You could try that out.

That's an idea, but I don't see the "copy" entry in the menu. However,
long tap on the address does offer "copy". Thanks, this is a keeper, if
I can remember to do that instead of the action ingrained by habit :-)

Sorry I can't be of more help. Hopefully someone else knows more than I do
as I probably use a web browser once or twice a year on an Android phone.

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Carlos E.R. wrote:

When I tap to share a link from Firefox (private window) in my Android
phone, for example into whatsapp, I get something like this:

https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/analistas-confirman-putin-quiere- guerra-unica-sorprendente-razon.html

Enviado desde Firefox 🦊 https://mzl.la/3D860mB

The second link is a commercial from Firefox.

I don't use whatsapp, so can't test that, but sending to various other
sharing "actions" e.g. thunderbird mobile, clipboard, android messages
etc doesn't add the second link for me

It seems odd that it would send different links to different actions?

using FF mobile v138.0.2

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Carlos E.R. wrote:

That's an idea, but I don't see the "copy" entry in the menu.

Share it from firefox to clipboard, swap into whatsapp and paste it,
then (if it still appears) delete the unwanted firefox promo link?

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On 2025-05-15 12:14, Andy Burns wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote:

That's an idea, but I don't see the "copy" entry in the menu.

Share it from firefox to clipboard, swap into whatsapp and paste it,
then (if it still appears) delete the unwanted firefox promo link?

Ah, yes, I see now the clipboard entry in the menu.

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Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote:

When I tap to share a link from Firefox (private window) in my Android phone, for example into whatsapp, I get something like this:

https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/analistas-confirman-putin-quiere- guerra-unica-sorprendente-razon.html

Enviado desde Firefox 🦊 https://mzl.la/3D860mB

The second link is a commercial from Firefox.

I don't use whatsapp, so can't test that, but sending to various other sharing "actions" e.g. thunderbird mobile, clipboard, android messages
etc doesn't add the second link for me

It seems odd that it would send different links to different actions?

using FF mobile v138.0.2

It doesn't do that for me sharing to WA on FF 137.0.2.
I just updated to FF 138.0.3 and it doesn't do it either.

I don't use FF as a rule so all my settings are likely the default.

Theo

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Theo wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote:

Enviado desde Firefox 🦊 https://mzl.la/3D860mB
The second link is a commercial from Firefox.

It doesn't do that for me sharing to WA on FF 137.0.2.

Another user reporting the same (strangely searching for the spanish
message found it on an english reddit page)

<https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1k6cila/sent_from_firefox_message_added_when_sharing_a>

and how to disable it ...

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On Thu, 15 May 2025 17:06:05 +0100, Andy Burns wrote :

<https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1k6cila/sent_from_firefox_message_added_when_sharing_a>

and how to disable it ...

That's what I love about Usenet - we learn from others every day.

I'll let Carlos try it & report back to the team because I don't even have Firefox on my phone (I have many web browsers, but they're privacy based).

On Windows, one might use about:config
Open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar.
Press Enter.
You'll likely see a warning page saying "Proceed with Caution."
Click "Accept the Risk and Continue" to move forward.
Search for browser.share.send_via_url.enabled.
You should see a preference with that name.
By default, its value will likely be true.
To disable it, click the toggle button (or double-click the preference).
That should change its value to false.

But on Android, supposedly there's a setting for that.
Open the Firefox app on your Android device.
Tap the three dots (menu icon)
Scroll down and tap on "Settings".
Look for a section related to "Link sharing" or similar.
In some versions, it might be under "General" or "Privacy and security".
Within the "Link sharing" settings, you should find an option like
"Add 'Sent from Firefox' to shared links".
Toggle this option to the "Off" position.

I did NOT test this out - I only used your keywords to find it.
Carlos can let us know if it works on his Android Firefox browser.

I repeat. While I have many web browsers on my phone, I don't have Firefox
as all my web browsers are privacy based so I did not test this out.

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Marion wrote:

Scroll down and tap on "Settings".
Look for a section related to "Link sharing" or similar.

I think the adverts (along with the the link-sharing option) only shows
up if you've been selected to run an experiment/trial, there used to be
an option to disable trials, but looks like that's gone?

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On Thu, 15 May 2025 12:48:07 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :

That's an idea, but I don't see the "copy" entry in the menu.

Share it from firefox to clipboard, swap into whatsapp and paste it,
then (if it still appears) delete the unwanted firefox promo link?

Ah, yes, I see now the clipboard entry in the menu.

When I use a web browser on my phone, it's usually from a PC (where the
phone is mirrored almost two feet tall) and it's almost always incidental.

My phone is set up for privacy so there's no Firefox or Chrome but there is
the Tor browser bundle, Firefox Focus, Fennic, Bromite, Chromit, Epic, etc.

One of those is my "default" web browser where links "just pop up" in it. That's what I mean by "incidental" where I control that action, of course.

A classic case of incidental use of links popping up in a default web
browser is when I search for apps using the best search engine out there.

Skyica (the free fully functional version) will find the best apps using
the best search engine filters ever known on the planet - and it will send
an Intent to my privacy-based google play store replacement app to get it.

That is how privacy-based phones work because there is no Google Account
set up on the phone and no phone with a Google Account set up is private.

However...

Some times I want to archive the URL to the app that Skyica found and that
the open-source Google Play Store installed, perhaps to post to Usenet.

For that purpose of obtaining the specific URL to the app that was
installed off the Google Play Store repository using the open-source Google Play Store app, Skyica will send an Intent to the default web browser.

Then the Google Play Store web site link shows up in my default browser.
I cut and paste that link - which is my incidental use of phone browsers.

In summary, on my privacy-based phone, the only thing a web browser does is intercept URLs so that I can copy and paste them to threads like this one.

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On 2025-05-15 11:44, Andy Burns wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote:

When I tap to share a link from Firefox (private window) in my Android
phone, for example into whatsapp, I get something like this:

https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/analistas-confirman-putin-quiere-
guerra-unica-sorprendente-razon.html

Enviado desde Firefox 🦊 https://mzl.la/3D860mB

The second link is a commercial from Firefox.

I don't use whatsapp, so can't test that, but sending to various other sharing "actions" e.g. thunderbird mobile, clipboard, android messages
etc doesn't add the second link for me

It seems odd that it would send different links to different actions?

Maybe because some apps break when you share two links. With whatsapp,
there is one link above, and text below. An url in the text is ignored.

I just tried repeating the action with sending an RCS, did not happen.
Nor in Telegram (in Telegram, the post is sent immediately, no chance to
edit9. I don't have a dummy account in Signal to try.

using FF mobile v138.0.2

Oh, I remembered that I use the private version of Firefox by default.

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On 2025-05-14 21:45, Carlos E.R. wrote:

When I tap to share a link from Firefox (private window) in my Android
phone, for example into whatsapp, I get something like this:

+++····················· https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/analistas-confirman-putin-quiere- guerra-unica-sorprendente-razon.html

Enviado desde Firefox 🦊 https://mzl.la/3D860mB ·····················++-

The second link is a commercial from Firefox. It expands to a link to
install Firefox (not always the same link: in this Linux machine, it
thinks I'm using an Apple: <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox- private-web-browser/id989804926>)

This is happening maybe since a month ago.

Every time I share a link, I have to delete that part manually. Is there
a setting?

Now doesn't happen, back to normal.

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Cheers,
Carlos E.R.

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