[HN Gopher] Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as fb...
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       Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as fbclid utm
       parameters
        
       Author : mot2ba
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2020-02-21 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | prophesi wrote:
       | It'd be cool to implement this as a browser extension, that
       | either silently strips the parameters, or opens a dialogue upon a
       | link click telling you what the extension is allowed to strip out
       | before proceeding.
        
         | ctcherry wrote:
         | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neat-url/jchobbjgi...
        
         | mcpeepants wrote:
         | That's what it is
         | 
         | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
        
           | prophesi wrote:
           | Ah, thanks! I couldn't tell that was a case from the readme.
        
             | symfoniq wrote:
             | In your defense, I don't see a link to the extension
             | anywhere on the GitHub page.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | ronalbarbaren wrote:
       | Cool. Work well on Firefox Mobile. I installed successfully on
       | Kiwi Browser (Chromium Mobile based) but couldn't edit extension
       | option, glitch somehow. Hope author add a feature like importing
       | config file.
        
       | runxel wrote:
       | This is one of the worst GitHub readmes I've ever encountered!
       | 
       | What is this? A CLI tool? A website? A browser extension?
       | 
       | Had to look in the comments to tell - what a desaster.
        
         | Lammy wrote:
         | They probably expect the Mozilla/Chrome extension sites to be
         | the discovery point for people.
        
       | devindotcom wrote:
       | Love this kind of decluttering. I hate gigantic URLs! I've been
       | using ClearURLs for Firefox, seems to work well. Anyone know of
       | any major differences?
       | 
       | https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls
        
       | lightswitch05 wrote:
       | I've been using this extension for a couple years now. In fact, I
       | submitted the pull request for the fbclid feature [1].
       | @Smile4ever merged and released the change the next day. It is a
       | really great extension with a responsive and helpful maintainer.
       | I'm glad its getting some more visibility.
       | 
       | Extension Links:
       | 
       | Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
       | 
       | Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neat-
       | url/jchobbjgi...
       | 
       | ---
       | 
       | [1] https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL/pull/163
        
       | vernie wrote:
       | Won't somebody please think of the advertisers?!
        
       | BerislavLopac wrote:
       | I've written a simple bookmarklet I call UrchinKiller that does
       | the job:                   javascript:window.location=window.loca
       | tion.href.replace(/\?([^#]*)/,function(_,s){s=s.split('&').filter
       | (function(v){return(!/^utm_/.test(v))}).join('&');return(s?'?'+s:
       | '')});
        
         | admax88q wrote:
         | Won't this only apply _after_ you've loaded the page? Doesn't
         | really help prevent the tracking that most of those parameters
         | are used for.
        
           | devindotcom wrote:
           | Could still be handy for people who don't mind the URL
           | loading big but might later want to copy-paste it somewhere
           | in cleaner format.
        
       | de-amped wrote:
       | It doesn't clean AMP URLs?
        
       | nyc_pizzadev wrote:
       | This is a browser extension, I think. No where does it actually
       | say that.
        
         | gurjeet wrote:
         | Created a pull request that fixes this confusion.
         | 
         | https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL/pull/211
        
         | ObsoleteNerd wrote:
         | Yeah that could definitely be made clearer. I bounced when I
         | couldn't quickly see if this was a browser extension or a
         | library or something else.
        
       | daef wrote:
       | I like to squeeze amazon links to
       | https://amazon.com/dp/B0085NTQJK - removing the SEO inlining of
       | the article name
       | 
       | Removing those pesky get-parameters aint enough to keep a BOM
       | link list in line
        
         | frosted-flakes wrote:
         | See, I actually like it when URLs contain human-readable text.
         | Cryptic URLs like YouTube has are meaningless to me, requiring
         | me to actually visit the page to see what it is. That's also
         | why I dis-like link shorteners.
         | 
         | I really like Stack Overflow's URLs because of how flexible
         | they are. You can put _anything_ in the title slug, since only
         | the ID is used. When self-documenting links aren 't useful,
         | then you can omit the title slug completely.
         | 
         | For example, these three links all point to the same page:
         | 
         | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37358364/rules-for-the-u...
         | 
         | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37358364/typescript-angl...
         | 
         | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37358364
        
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