Remove redirects and tracking parameters from the urls

[kisst]

• current behaviour:

Single page visit goes across 2 redirect

curl -s -L -I $(curl -s https://librenews.io/api  | jq -r .latest[0].link) | grep -c ^Location
2

but even after that is filled up with an other 4 tracking parameters

curl -s -L -I $(curl -s https://librenews.io/api  | jq -r .latest[0].link) | grep "^Location" | tail -n 1 | cut -f2- -d? | sed -e $'s/&/\\\n/g' | wc -l
4

• expected:

receive direct links without redirects and tracking parameters in the links

[milesmcc]

This would require some complex application logic, as it would involve the server having to de-mask the "tracker" urls. Currently, the LibreNews Server serves URLs just as they are provided by BBC: shortened.

Is this objectionable?

[kisst]

Objectionable maybe a strong word, but if with a little extra work, we can further reduce the user tracking, then why not.

I'm not sure how complex is it, most of the time this would work, at least with well behaved urls.

r = requests.get(url)
re_url = re.search('[^?]*', r.url )
clean_url = re_url.group(0)

I tested with all url-s in the feed, worked just fine, but I guess due to the traffic minimisation like in #5, this should be optional, at the same time the client side implementation of #6 would be a bigger help to reduce data.