So annoying to always have to find out how far you can trim a URL before it breaks.

Everything after the ? can be safely removed

This is usually true but but not always. There's often times when a URL query like that is used to choose the page to load. I believe wordpress does this

I did not know what those were for before seeing this but I remeber seeing "source=chat_gpt" next to a link to a source in a news article and thought that it was odd.

I use an app called "Leon URL Cleaner" from F-Droid. Does a really good job removing tracking params, and only adds one extra step to sharing a URL.

• URLCheck
• URLSanitizer

Also relevant:

• LinkSheet

Yep!

Only thing I want to see after a ? in a youtube url is t=4m20s

This belongs more on Technology and Privacy communities.

For Android users at least, I recommend the Léon URL Cleaner app, when you share a link from many common sources to the URL Cleaner, it removes all that tracking shit for you, and copies the cleaned link to the clipboard.

hey you, yeah you, you're finally awake

ClearURLs was my go to on Firefox, I think it's still great but it gave me trouble on a couple of sites because it modified the url in the address bar (it was like AliExpress and shopee, Chinese e-commerce sites that look like a web dev vomited, so I hardly blame ClearURLs)

Firefox also now has "copy clean link" when you right click the url bar which also works great.

If you run across a link with a regular "?utm_source=.." , that can not tell people anything about you. It simply tells the website "register one click onto this article coming from this specific newsletter we sent out". It does not tie this information to you.

With other tracking things, what is described here is absolutely possible though.

You all got Rick-rolled btw

Most of my internetin' is done on mobile, because I'm very rarely at my desk, and when I am, I'm normally working on school. Are there any solutions to handling this easily on mobile without having to manually erase part of the pasted link when I go to send it to someone? A few people have mentioned that's it's not 100% guaranteed that the anything after ? Is worthless, so I don't know how to ensure I'm not breaking a link

I always do this when I post YouTube links. Be damned if I want to be associated with you lot! (Seriously though, it’s a good idea to do)

Just a reminded, if you have the Clipboard Manager called Ditto

You can strip those right out of your pasted URLs, even many at once !

(for windows users, for linux there is https://github.com/farzher/clipman but it lacks that particular feature at this time )

Thing I find funny is when the url seems to indicate you came from an email or something. Now if I share it, anyone who clicks will also count as coming from an email. Dumass ruining your own statistics

Brave for iOS has the Copy Clean Link option. There’s GNAT Cleaner from the App Store but I’ve never used it.

I tried adding screenshots but I haven’t been able to upload photos in almost a week.

I like this to trim/handle redirects https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

I am pretty sure firefox let's you remove trackers from url.

This is so important, too many people don’t know about this.

But still this is not shitposting. God .world sucks. Ble