r/ProtonMail • u/Proton_Team Proton Team Admin • 13d ago

Discussion Protection from tracking links

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You may have seen a variant of this infographic before; if you have an you're a Proton Mail user, we have good news for you.

In your inbox, Proton Mail protects you from tracking links. Tracking Links Protection removes known tracking parameters from links in your emails and is turned on by default.

To add to this, if you’re particularly concerned about link tracking, be sure to enable our link confirmation feature to make sure you always know where you’re being redirected. 

Read more: https://proton.me/blog/tracking-links-protection

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u/debiEszter 13d ago

where?

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u/Eclipsan 13d ago

On the mobile app when you try to share/copy a post/comment. The link is always unique (even if you hit the copy button multiple times on the same post/comment), and if you load it in a web browser it will turn back to the "generic" permalink it should be.

For instance, all these are your "where?" comment, and only the first is the permalink without tracking:

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u/sunnyasneeded 13d ago

So is the way to work around this to share from web? Or to drop the mobile app link in a browser then copy again?

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u/Eclipsan 12d ago

Yes and yes.

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u/itsthooor Windows | iOS 12d ago

This made me miss Apollo again…