kiran-b / clean-links

What happens in your browser, stays in your browser.

Clean Links

What happens in your browser, stays in your browser.

This is a Safari App Extension, which strips all popular tracking query parameters off the links you click. No more fbclid or gclid!

Requirements

The extension is available in macOS 10.12 and later.

Installation

To install Clean Links you can either download the latest prebuild extension from the releases tab, or you can clone the repository and build it yourself.

After that double click on the extension to install it. Navigate to Safari -> Preferences -> Extensions and make sure Clean Links Extension and Clean Links Content Blocker are enabled.

You should see the extension icon next to the url bar, indicating that the extension has been successfully activated.

FAQ

What tracking parameters does the plugin currently strips?

Tracking tokens from the following services are stripped:

• UTM parameters used by Google Analytics
• DoubleClick Click Identifier (dclid), used by DoubleClick, now Google
• Facebook Click Identifier (fbclid) used by Facebook in social media analytics
• Google Click Identifier (gclid and gclsrc), used by Google Ads
• Microsoft Click Identifier (msclkid), used by Bing Ads
• Zanox click identifier (zanpid), used by Awin
• Mailchimp (mc_eid)
• Yandex (_openstat)
• HubSpot (_hsenc, _hsmi)

Clean Links also does more than just removing tracking parameters, you can read more about it's privacy features in the Privacy section.

Roadmap

• Possibly publish the extension to the Mac App Store, in order to provide auto updates
• Make the main app screen more user friendly

Support

If this extension was useful to you or you want to support the project, I would be very grateful if you buy me a cup of coffee.

Resources

• Icon made by Pixel perfect from www.flaticon.com

License

MIT