# ClearURLs: Automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy

<https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/>

- Host: [github.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/github.com/)
- Saved: May 6, 2021 (2021-05-06T11:04:03Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5cfe4dd220d9/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5cfe4dd220d9.json

## What Jamie wrote

Tracking codes embedded in URL's are one of my big pet peeves. The combination of various parameters in URL's, along with URL shorteners, can track you in ways that are absolutely not obvious. It’s great to see this project to remove them from URL's automatically. I also love that the [rules are freely available](https://github.com/ClearURLs/Rules/blob/master/data.json) as well.

My big wish would be for [Pinboard](https://pinboard.in/), my bookmarking service, would do this automatically when I save a URL.

## Facts

- Kind: [Repository](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/repository/)
- Repository: ClearURLs/Addon: ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.
- About the repository: JavaScript, 5,074 stars, LGPL-3.0, last push July 27, 2025
- Homepage: <http://docs.clearurls.xyz>

## Appears in

- [WT185: Weekly Thing #185 / Signal, Peloton, Meebits](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/185/), Recommended Links

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/