Better wording for Copy Clean URL context menu item

[bsclifton]

Description

When solving the feature #23315 with brave/brave-core#14763 we have (on the context menu), Copy clean link (only main URL)

It might be better as Copy clean link (remove tracking elements) or Copy clean link (strip query suffix) (something like this)

When fixed, would need uplift to 1.45

cc: @rmcfadden3 @rebron can you help with wording on this?

[BrendanEich]

@pes10k @ShivanKaul thoughts welcome too.

[rmcfadden3]

@fmarier and I discussed this a couple weeks back, and arrived at the "Copy clean link (only main URL)" string after much back-and-forth. I'm good with it.

[pes10k]

as a novice user, im not sure i'd know what "only main URL" means (im not sure i know what it means a non-novice user!). Why not just "Copy link address (clean)" or similar, so its clearly related to but distinct option from the existing "Copy link address" option?

[rmcfadden3]

@pes10k — @fmarier and I chose not to go that route, because the word "clean" is likely not universally understood by novice users. So we chose to "brand" the term as "clean", but then give a very short parenthetical definition of what "clean" means, too.

[pes10k]

that seems extremely confusing to me (and the wrong piece of UI) to define a term in a dropdown menu

I'm also surprised that i didn't see this option when i right click on a link. Is that intended?

[bsclifton]

I'm also surprised that i didn't see this option when i right click on a link. Is that intended?

@pes10k yes - that wasn't in scope for the MVP in original spec by @fmarier. I've captured that here #25625

[rmcfadden3]

@pes10k — I'm definitely open to shifting. Some options off top of my head:

• Copy clean link (URL only)
• Copy clean link address (URL only)
• Copy link address (URL only)

Any other ideas?

[pes10k]

I dont think URL only works for any of these. Query parameters are part of the URL. I'm happy to hold my peace if folks feel otherwise, but I still don't understand the concern around "clean". It captures the feature (both technically and literally), and a "clean" URL seems at least as understandable as what a "main" URL is.

Strong vote against "link" though too. Its definitely not a link :)

Anyway, i'll sit on my hands for a bit, but thats my 2c

[ShivanKaul]

Agree that 'clean' without qualification seems fine - I think we should have documentation/support article/wiki/blog post explaining what exactly we mean by 'clean', but we don't need to make this confusing for users.

[rmcfadden3]

Per sidebar w/ @rebron , our latest idea for this string is:

Copy clean URL (address only)

[pes10k]

what is meant by (address only)? The whole thing is the address (regardless of weather there or some, a lot, or no query parameters), and there are many query parameters we won't remove

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[bridiver]

So seeing this for the first time I had absolutely no idea what "Copy clean link" meant and adding "only main URL" made it even more confusing. I had to go back to the original issue to see what this feature does. "clean" meant absolutely nothing to me and did not provide any additional useful information to understand what it does. "Copy link and strip trackers"? I don't know if that will be meaningful to users, but it would have been a lot more meaningful to me than "clean" which meant absolutely nothing to me.

[rebron]

Some additional suggestions. What it will look like from Share menu.

1. Copy clean URL No further description

2. Copy clean link No further description. Relying on clean to differentiate from Copy link

3. Copy clean link for sharing

[rebron]

Right click context menu from the url bar.

1. Copy clean URL No further description

2. Copy clean link No further description. Relying on clean to differentiate from Copy link

3. Copy clean link for sharing

[kjozwiak]

Labelling as QA/No in favour of #26106 which we'll be used to verify brave/brave-core#15518. CCing @rebron @bsclifton