PSA on privuhcy
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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.
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So annoying to always have to find out how far you can trim a URL before it breaks.
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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.
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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.
This belongs more on Technology and Privacy communities.
I guess it was posted here to reach a broader audience.
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So annoying to always have to find out how far you can trim a URL before it breaks.
Happy cake day
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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.
Thanks. I didn't know about that. Although I tried doing it and the option was grayed out. Any idea what might be wrong? Do I need to change a setting or something? This was on youtube.
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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 )
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Thanks. I didn't know about that. Although I tried doing it and the option was grayed out. Any idea what might be wrong? Do I need to change a setting or something? This was on youtube.
I don't think YouTube actually has tracking parameters in the url normally, but if you use the share button then the youtu.be link will include the video ID as well tracking. But it looks like you can kinda use it there too if you select the link with tracking, it seems to detect that it's a link and offers the clean link option when you right click it.
If you go to an Amazon item page then you should see it available when right clicking the address bar.
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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.
I also use URLCheck on my phone. Made it the default browser and it pops up with options to clean the link and choose which browser to open it with
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does anyone know what ?feature=shared does in youtube links and whether it's worth removing it?
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If you are using iOS, you can create a shortcut or download one of the premade shortcuts without any 3rd party apps :3
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I like this to trim/handle redirects https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/
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does anyone know what ?feature=shared does in youtube links and whether it's worth removing it?
You can remove it, it tells YouTube how you got to that video. In this case someone shared it.
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If you are using iOS, you can create a shortcut or download one of the premade shortcuts without any 3rd party apps :3
Do you have a link to any of these
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You can remove it, it tells YouTube how you got to that video. In this case someone shared it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.
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Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.
Yeah, wikipedia does something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse?wprov=sfla1
The stuff after
?indicates that the article was shared. I usually don't remove it to let wikipedia have some user stats. -
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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
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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)
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So annoying to always have to find out how far you can trim a URL before it breaks.
Typically anything after the "?". That's where the parameters live. There are always exceptions.
