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is this only limited to work on certain domains or to strip certain strings? #7
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It cleans the utm_* parameters on all domains. If you know of some other generic rule that can be applied to all domains, I'm interested. There is additionnally specific rules for some websites's pages, as you've seen, because they have redirect trackers or url parameters cruft. It's probably impossible to judge what is cruft on ALL domains with a generic rule, but it's still useful to clean specific websites. |
doesn't cleanlinks do a little more proactive monitoring? |
The Link Cleaner addon does not change links that appear on pages. It only cleans the url that the browser visits (the one that end up appearing in the url bar). Other addons might rewrite links in the page that use a shortener, by hitting the shortened url, and then changing the href of the |
I can't see CleanLinks description (since it was removed from AMO), but from the sentence you quoted here, I don't see how it would prevent tracking for links hidden behind shortened URLs (which is difficult/impossible to solve anyway for this kind of links). You need to hit the shortened url to get the full url behind it. |
Ah. His add-on is on Github. The HTTP Observer stuff |
I'll leave this in your capable hands. Pure URL is a legacy addon that is now broken (53.02/54+). From the description:
and from the installed add-on's options page, the editable "garbage" field held this:
You already seem to have PS: Thanks for the extension - you're on our list |
A challenger appears! |
I realize you're promoting this to be better than an outdated extension which does something similar but if it's just for cleaning links on a handful of domains or a few extra link cruft it's not that powerful.
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