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Remove trackers from links #768

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Nutomic opened this issue Jun 2, 2020 · 4 comments
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Remove trackers from links #768

Nutomic opened this issue Jun 2, 2020 · 4 comments
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Nutomic commented Jun 2, 2020 •
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Lemmy could automatically remove things like utm parameters and rewrite AMP links. Maybe we could also add a user option to redirect youtube links to invidious, twitter to nitter etc.

Previously discussed here

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dessalines commented Jun 2, 2020 •
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ClearUrls looks like the most popular tracker remover for firefox. If it had a simple js library that was function removeTrackers(url: String): String, then this would be very easy.

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/-/issues/536

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Nutomic commented Jun 2, 2020

It should be done in Rust imo, but I guess js is better than nothing.

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For the utm parameters a simple regex (or even a split and join) should suffice, but I don't know how AMP links are handled

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pefimo commented Feb 24, 2021

Projekt:ONI provides a browser extension called WhatCampaign that overwrites utm_* URL parameters. Maybe that could be used as a starting point too?

dessalines added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 24, 2021
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Merge pull request #1637 from LemmyNet/remove-url-tracking-params
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Remove tracking params from post url (fixes #768)
Nutomic added a commit that referenced this issue Jul 30, 2021
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Remove tracking params from post url (fixes #768)
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