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by rkagerer 1514 days ago
Yet I'm constantly doing this on some of the most popular websites (eg. Amazon) to remove tracking portions and other unwanted cruft when sharing or archiving links.
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victorvscn 1514 days ago
You should know there are both Chrome extensions and Tampermonkey scripts for that.
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rkagerer 1514 days ago
Thanks! Which is your favorite?

I used to use TamperMonkey (even wrote a somewhat popular script a long time ago) and more plugins, but tired of the cognitive overhead maintaining the setup eg. every time I format/migrate, or when my browser decided to break backward compatibility, or when sites changed and the mod was no longer being updated, or when my browser got slow and I had to try and isolate which one(s) were at fault.

I'm sure the plugins are great, I just personally find it easier now to remove by hand (and other sledgehammers like disabling JavaScript altogether for the most aggregiously annoying sites).

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victorvscn 1514 days ago
You're right that it's annoying. I use Edge, and I think it syncs extensions now, so I haven't really had to set it up for a while, though.

I think the best one to install and forget is Tracking Token Stripper (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tracking-token-str...), but obviously it's not going to get all of them. Like, it's not continuously updated AFAIK. If you want to input the parameters it strips, then you have to use Query Stripper (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/query-stripper/cce...).

I wish its dev would create a crowdsourced list, though.

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