Prevent adding URLs to history

[adoxa]

I would like to prevent certain URLs being added to history. CAA has "No History" (by Tito Bouzout), but I'm unable to download it. Would someone be able to attach it, or suggest an alternative? TIA.

[_yuyu_]

Pale Moon Add-ons - PermissionsPlus

[adoxa]

No, that doesn't look specific enough (and I use "History disable button 0.4.1-signed.1-let-fixed.1-signed" to toggle history).

[Enobarbous]

Would someone be able to attach it?

Here. Didn't check how efficient it is

[adoxa]

Thank you! I'll have a play with it tomorrow. BTW, both files are identical.

[Moonchild]

If you can't get it to work, you can always just use a new private window to go to the sites you don't want stored in history. That is precisely what private browsing is for.

[adoxa]

It works. The use case is to prevent "supplemental" URLs being added to history, such as this site's "unread&sid" and Cloudflare's "__cf".

[moonbat]

My extension PermisionsPlus allows for this - you can prevent a given domain from being saved to history. Link in my sig.

[adoxa]

I'm really not connecting with people on this. I don't want to block domains, I only want to block specific URLs. E.g. if an.example.url/some/page is behind Cloudflare it's redirected to an.example.url/some/page?__cf_chl... and that's what I want to block, keeping the original.

[moonbat]

You want to remove the cloudflare parameters? Pure URL to the rescue, again in my sig

[Enobarbous]

I don't want to block domains, I only want to block specific URLs. E.g. if an.example.url/some/page is behind Cloudflare it's redirected to an.example.url/some/page?__cf_chl... and that's what I want to block, keeping the original.

Can I suggest a different approach? Essentially, given the task, you don't necessarily need to "prevent adding urls to history"; it's enough to simply automatically remove some urls from history. And that's much easier to achieve.
Example code for custom buttons, simply removing some sites from history when closing any tab:

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var deletedSites = ['https://example.com', 'https://example2.com', 'https://example3.com'];

function deleteHistory() {
  for (var i = 0; i < deletedSites.length; i++) {
    var site = deletedSites[i];
    var uri = NetUtil.newURI(site);
    PlacesUtils.history.removePage(uri);
    console.log(site + ' deleted from history')
  }
}

gBrowser.tabContainer.addEventListener('TabClose', deleteHistory, false);

The code is very basic; it doesn't handle edge cases or partial URL matches (perhaps, instead of a static list of sites, it is worth doing a history search and selecting all addresses containing '?__cf_' into an array?); for better performance, you could use 'removePages()' (https://xref.palemoon.org/goanna-centra ... istory.idl) and so on, but this is what I threw together in 5 minutes at work as an example.
Of course, this isn't a finished solution, but I know you've written at least one extension