App to help you remove tracking information before sharing links.

Features:

  • Untrack when sharing: You may share links to “Untracker” in the sharesheet to remove tracking information and copy or share again.
  • Select to untrack: You may select text and click “Untrack” in the selection toolbar to remove tracking information and replace.
  • Manage rules: You may control or add rules to remove tracking information with JavaScript code.

https://github.com/zhanghai/Untracker

  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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    11 months ago

    works at Google

    makes anti-tracking software

    Hmm, create the problem and sell the solution, well played…

    Jk, doing something like this despite working at Google is freaking admirable, the guy even put a screenshot of “untracking” a YouTube URL in the project’s README, lol.

    Btw, I thought I’d seen this name before and he’s the same guy behind the awesome Material Files!

    • Otter@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      I think being paid well makes it easier to commit time towards FOSS projects, so a lot of contributors are from similar backgrounds

  • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    This could be really good if it could expand shortened links. Tiktok links have a creepy amount of tracking that can be easily bypassed by expanding the link and removing the tracking params.

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      11 months ago

      Turns out that you can!

      Expand Tiktok URLs

      if ($.matches(url, '(www\\.)?tiktok\\.com')) {
          return $.followRedirect(url);
      }
      
      

      Remove tracking params

      if ($.matches(url, '(www\\.)?tiktok\\.com')) {
          return $.setEncodedQuery(url, null);
      }