Although Brave is against it Because they think it's not the best for privacy, it's a feature that I do like. I'm talking about sharing links with the selected text, which causes the text to be displayed right where it is once opened, and the text is highlighted. It's been 9 months since Mozilla started supporting this feature, and the latest version of Firefox Nightly has gone further and started offering full support.
If you look at the header capture, when you select a text and right click, a pop-up appears. new option “Copy link to selected text”. This link, when shared, behaves as we just explained. Under the hood, it copies the web page link, adds a hash (#) to act as the ID, then ":~:text=", and finally the text to search for. If the target browser supports it—and not all do—it will open the page, scroll to the text, and highlight it.
Firefox Nightly adds a feature… that hurts privacy?
Giving us options isn't a bad thing, nor is explaining all the implications. Brave explained that by sharing a link with the text as a parameter, an internet service provider, for example, could find out information about us. If we browse an article and the word "cancer" appears in the parameters, the operator can know something is up. Brave decided not to support this and removed the feature, thus not giving users the opportunity to decide for their safety.
That said, I think it's not superfluous, emphasizing that it's not the best option for privacy. I've used it in conversations about sports with acquaintances, or to pass on information about how to do something. But I take Brave's point seriously.
In any case, it is a feature they are testing in the Nightly version, available hereWhether it becomes stable or not is something we will discover over time.