What is Reddit's opinion of ClearURLs?

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And the link shortened without tracking ID:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Loga-Calculator+Cylindrical+Slide+Rule&tbm=isch

I recommend https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls to get rid of tracking crap in URLs.

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/-/issues/597

According to that 4 months issue. I wonder if ClerURL upstream want to support Firefox Mobile Android at all. The dev is not in to Android.

The addon it self installable in FF Mobile Android Nightly and Beta. But without upstream support, we're on our own.

Understandably, the ClearURL dev currently is busy rewriting ClearURL to new codes. https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/-/issues/703

Edited: add links.

dann müsstest der Bot alle möglichen tracking URLs auf vorrat haben... das ist ja kein standard, da können beliebige string drinstehen :(

es gibt listen ^^(beispiel von ClearUrls von sowas, aber die garantieren natürlich keine vollständigkeit...

For Firefox, and I assume there's a similar one for Chrome/Edge or whatever browser store you use.

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls

auto-removes the nonsense from links when you copy/paste.

I realize we are on Reddit, but it's kind of silly when submissions to /r/Privacy include UTM codes in the links.

Use a URL filter addon like ClearURLs.

Mods: It's opensource and on gitlab: https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls

While we are on that subject, some of the better privacy addons for firefox are listed here:

https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls

I use this open-source extension with Brave to remove the trackers from URLs when browsing the internet. You could use it as a work-around by opening the links in Brave first and then copying the cleaned URLs from the address bar.

You can install ClearUrls for browser addons and if you have an Android phone, just install UntrackMe via F-Droid. But since you are in this subs, I recommend you to leave Gmail :)

a related recommendation: because the uBlock Origin developer chose not to support rewriting URLs an additional addon is beneficial for clearing the tracking parameters — ClearURLs may be the optimal choice. Reddit is supported.

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I ported this extension from firefox. Works fine if you are looking for a lighter https-everywhere or smart https alternative. The name is httpz. As for the extensions I recommend are: localcdn, clearurls, and ublock origin.

Try searching for "CS50" on Google, then do the same on Google Images and compare the URLs. You'll see the only difference between them is an additional parameter called tbm, which Google uses to know it should display the Google Images results instead of the Search results.

This is easier to see using an extension such as ClearURLs, which removes unnecessary parameters, such as tracking elements, from URLs.

You need to use this parameter in project0 to redirect to the correct results page.

I forgot to mention that I am running AdGuard for Windows v7.3. I've been trying to find some good filter lists that can do what I like.

For example, I downloaded the "I don't care about cookies" filter list and loaded it into AdGuard, but for some reason, it misses a website or two that the actual browser extension catches.

And AdGuard's URL stripping feature doesn't seem to work for me on amazon.com, whereas an extension like ClearURLs does.

Maybe I'm just configuring AdGuard incorrectly.

Thanks. Edited.

Clear URLs is significantly heavier and uses an external rules file instead of just paste in my rules, that does cover a lot more by default. Neat URL just comes with some defaults you can change on the preferences page.

Et en plus c'est « recommandé » par Mozilla, donc suffisamment audité pour pas tomber sur du caca.

Regarde dans les options tu as un truc sympa :

• Nettoyage de plusieurs urls d'un coup (utile quand tu partage des liens d'une newsletter) => c'est la clé + tournevis à côté de la roue cranté

Dans les paramétrages

• Lien vers le .json des règles : si tu veux auditer ou juste regarder le niveau de détail

• Des personnalisations pour les plus avancés

• L'option de laisser certains "tracker" : les referrals du genre Amazon and co. quand tu veux soutenir certaines choses (cf. cette discussion ça donne une idée du dev également, et je trouve ça plutôt sain).

I thought ClearURLs (sic) was more actively developed. See thread here https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/issues/314

Decentraleyes takes up some memory but reduces traffic. Overall, I think it improves efficiency.

From https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

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• Added an option to im-/export the log (requires the downloads
  permission)
• Added an option to im-/export the settings (requires the downloads
  permission)

A recent update to the the ClearURLs addon appears to be the culprit of these particular issues. Hopefully a fix will be released soon. In the meantime, you may want to temporarily disable the addon while using Google Search and other affected sites.

Here is a link to the issue report on the addon's repository.

That could be within the scope of this plugin as well, from what I've heard about AMP. This plugin has a GitLab repository with an issue tracker, so you could ask about it there.

That's <em>a lot</em> of permission requests...

The discussion on the topic clears it up a bit, but I think this points to how we need more granular permission control in our addons, Android-style.

I'm using ClearURL's. I not only works om Reddit but also a lot of other domains

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/blob/master/data/data.min.json

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/?src=search