[HN Gopher] Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as fb... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (github.com) (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 | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-02-21 23:00 UTC)