Every time I get a share link I’m always pasting it and deleting everything after the /? Like if there’s an extension to auto strip that shit out, I’d be happier

Also came in to recommend URLCheck! Fantastic tool, everyone should use it.

Yeah, I have that as my default browser. It's great! I just wish certain apps like Discord wouldn't bypass my default browser and open YouTube links directly in the YouTube app. I have to copy them first, and it's a nuisance.

I love that app! You can also add custom rules, the soundcloud thing shouldn't be that hard to get rid of.

There's also Léon the URL Cleaner, which is pretty good.

Asking for a friend, how do you do this?

I just remove the tracker

• general: utm_source
• Instagram: igsh
• YouTube: si

Just delete that shit. Please add more, people who knows of others!

then there is the Spotify way, where every sharer gets a unique link

What’s the extension name? I have this exact same issue.

Edit: does it also work for Instagram reels?

If you browse the web and want to send a URL to a friend.

Make sure to delete the question mark and every single character after it.

Everything before is the real URL and will link to the same webpage.

Everything after are tracking numbers and other parameters that aren't needed. They make the URL longer, but also allow tracking between devices.

You ever copy a link and it's like 3 paragraphs long? Most likely, most of that link is has additional query string parameters that's used for tracking. You could probably remove most of, if not everything after the '?' in those URLs, and it will work fine, but remove all the tracking info.

Tracking, trying to link people together.

Link-tracking. (the next blog post can explain this 100x better than me)

just to add on to what folks have said, here's a specific example:

You copy a YouTube link and send to a friend. The link ends with &sid=12345678

Youtube knows who you are and it knows who your friend is. When it creates the link it knows "Linktank created link 12345678"

When your friend opens the link, now YouTube knows "this person has some relation to Linktank."

With this YouTube can find out who you know and what you share with each other, without you ever having to tell them directly. Whether that's something you're ok with is up to you.

&?length

You don't need a second ?, any subsequent search parameters are added only with &.

I consider it the best Android app. No qualifiers.

For a few months now my phone's keyboard will give me the option to paste a link without all of the bullshit. It's pretty nice

You must be getting sent to the YouTube homepage a lot

Im sorry I dont want to duplicate the product page for every item in our inventory.