Thankfully uBlock Origin removes those parameters for us.
The default filters include a whole bunch of removeparam
filters; e.g. privacy.txt
See also removeparam.
Maybe you could help your friends and family install Firefox and/or uBlock Origin? Every little bit helps :)
It’s that pesky root
user, right? There’s loads of their files on my system. I can’t edit any of them. Don’t know why they are so protective.
Thought that’s already supported? e.g. https://gitlab.com/diasporg/diaspora.atom