Remove trackers from URLs

theartolater

Information after a ? in a URL is only for tracking purposes, and should be removed. Should not impact workflows.

If I click a link, I would anticipate not having a bunch of trackers, especially irrelevant ones like old Twitter references, as part of the URL. While some browser extensions can catch some of them, these trackers in your results make little sense.

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theartolater

We should already do this for a lot of parameters, if it is not working then that is a bug.
Could you please share the query used to reproduce these so we can test it out on our end (and fix it, or add others to the list)

tacohitbox

While I agree this should be done, it's not as simple as removing everything after the ?. A lot of sites store actually useful information in there, such as the video ID in YouTube links.

Edit: I think a good resource for this would be uBlock Origin's filter list here:
https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt

It strips tracking data and other not useful information from URLs.