Instead of using a whole new extension (which increase your attack surface), just

• Add this filterlist to uBlock Origin: https://gitlab.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/-/raw/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
• Enable “AdGuard/uBO - URL Tracking Protection” filterlist

ClearURLs extensiom needs the ability to read and modify every link you visit, which is very dangerous. Highly recommend just using uBlock Origin because it can do the same thing.

uBlock has an option to remove these…

Here it is on mobile.

Some websites do have required information after the ? which is needed for linking to the correct page/section.

If you’re not sure, try deleting it and pasting the modified link in a new tab. If it doesn’t work, try again with one additional argument (the text separated by ? or &) at a time until the link works.

Sharing a tracked link is a netizens equivalent of sneezing without covering your face. Unhygienic

On this regard, Reddit also no longer lets you sort by top/all without getting TONS of trackers.

assholes. good thing i left for lemmy

The Clear URLs extension is also available on Firefox for Android - cool stuff

Save this in your bookmarks:

https://linkcleaner.app/

The ? part (parameters) sometimes do play a role. But by removing parts like ?maxheight=300, you can sometimes get higher quality images.

Then there’s the # part (section). If you’re referencing a section in a long document, check if there’s a ToC linking to headings, or a # link next to them. For PDFs, #page=X usually works. BTW it is mostly harmless: just identify the HTML element ID to scroll into view and most browsers don’t send it to the server (but JavaScript can access it).

I use urlchecker from triangulous for this

I’ve been seeing youtube links with an &is=, is that the same thing or something else?

this has not many users so pretty trackable, so more of us should use it to make it work better

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/refer-deez-nuts/

its like clear urls but sets the string to deez_nuts

Thanks for the tip, I’ll do that from now on

If you are on android here is my favorite piece of software:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

Every time I get a link from friends, it goes trough that tool and it also supports regex, so you can automate some shit :D

A little something for those of you on iOS:

I used to do this when I used Instagram and YouTube. I don’t bother sending urls to those sites to anyone nowadays, but if I did, I wish there was a hack to remove that shit automatically.