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Remove tracking information before sharing links

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
    13·
    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.caEnglish
      6·
      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

    • perkypat@lemmy.ml
      1·
      11 months ago

      you underestimate the entanglements and interdependencies that exist between the dominant IT companies and parts of the open source community + both sides being system immanent and relying on numerous special application from each other ;also use and contribute to the same infrastructure. - thats very broadly speaking. but looking objectively at the matter I worry some relevant community parts couldnt cater to the market without some financial flows from the capitalist top dogs. dont want to generalize to much tho, opinions and people differ, guess all these complexities and questions in the greater aspects of society confuse the moral compass quite often. You start idealistic and with good resolution to achieve true knowkedge, you turn to Adorno then , and after actual reading him you are confused even more. not about his theoreical approach but why did he write this weird way, is every sentemce a puzzke to gatekeep the intellect of the well educated? whatever thats our lives in a nutshall, theres no right one in the wrong on, isnt ? , do i get that quote right? and did I zone out at one point??

  • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    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.

    • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      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);
}