Option to automatically remove tracking attributes from URLs
Jordan
This would work a bit like the ClearURL extension for Firefox. Tracking elements would be removed from urls, either automatically if you enable an option or maybe when a button is pressed in each individual item that is saved. An example would be amazon.tld/dp/productcode - everything after this is for tracking and could be removed
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Rustem Mussabekov
Try to ask AI Assistant to remove tracking attributes from your URLs https://help.raindrop.io/stella
Rustem Mussabekov
Try to ask AI Assistant to remove tracking attributes from your URLs https://help.raindrop.io/stella
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iren
Rustem Mussabekov Appreciate the update & excited to try out Stella, but I think the community is looking for automated parsing and removal of tracking attributes as a built-in function.
From a UX perspective, having to ask an AI every time you save a link is, in effect, no different than manually removing the trackers yourself while saving. Doing periodic “housekeeping” (by asking Stella to process URLs in bulk) also seems a viable option, but that still requires manual input & seems resource-inefficient on your end.
Regardless, thank you for your continuous engagement with the community & commitment to Raindrop 🙏�
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jrk
Rustem Mussabekov Doing it automatically on save would still be most convenient, but this is a nice idea. I tried it and was excited for the assistant to interpret the idea well, find a bunch of relevant items, and propose to clean them up if I said "yes," but then it proceeded to give no reply and make no changes when I said yes. I repeated this twice with the same results. It's strange—all follow-up messages in the conversation think for a while then generate no output.
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Rustem Mussabekov This is a really strange response. It means remembering each time to manually ask to a fragile tool to manipulate our URLs, in order to avoid a simple script of 100 lines to automatically handle all standard cases at the source.
I know AI is the trend, but please… that's not the need here.
Rustem Mussabekov
edas It's just a workaround in mean time
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iren
Seconded — Raindrop could automatically strip out UTMs and other trackers from URLs while saving posts from social media (e.g. Instagram attaches an “igsh” tag (sharer ID) to the end of post URLs), product pages on e-commerce sites (the Amazon example in the original post), and other applicable pages.
See Arc’s (browser) “cmd + shift + c” shortcut that copies clean URLs for a nice implementation.
Appreciate your attention to detail and ongoing efforts to make Raindrop a great product!
kevinanderson
Yes, please.
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client_ozzie235
This would be a great paid feature. Aside from automatic backups, and maybe one or two others, it actually appeals to me more than any of the other paid features.
GoodKarmaKid
I think a better title for this greatly needed feature is "UTM Stripper" - Basically everything after the question mark in the url should be stripped. https://site.com/widget1?=xcvadsfdf1233eww
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I've been a paid user for several years, just never taken the time to find the RoadMap. ;-)
This feature is long overdue in my opinion, would leave to see it implemented sooner rather than later.
Jason
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erdu
Cleaning up of URL to make it clean is a must, if URL in email is a shortened link and redirects to another page, final URL should be saved.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Cleaner URLs, please
Dorothea Salo
Current URLs to collections and especially search-term filters are very, very messy with a lot of special-character (% & =) cruft in them. I can't easily construct one in my browser address bar or in a syllabus reading list.
Could these be cleaned up? Use usernames instead of user numbers, collection name instead of number, and a clearer way to indicate (combinations of) tag searches?
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Remove "SEO-junk" from title
Ben Blanchard
Whenever I save something from the Financial Times, the headline is "Blah blah blah | Financial Times". Same with other websites too. Given that the icon and URL are visible, there's no need for this extra " | Financial Times" in the text. It makes the title look messy and harder to quickly distinguish between articles.
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hcabarcas
Yes! Yes! Yes! Why? (1) I love saving clean URLs. (2) Sometimes the _same_ page can be saved twice into Raindrop simply because an advertiser changes something in the URL at run-time. So Raindrop sees it as two different pages, even though they're the same.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Remove social media tracker URL params
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Henrik Sørensen
It would be great if Raindrop could remove tracking parameters from URLs automatically.
When I click on an article in my Facebook feed, the URL will have parameters such as CMP, utm_medium and utm_source added. I guess they're meant to track my reading habits.
I currently spend a little time removing them manually before sending a link to other people or bookmarking using raindrop. Would be great if this could be automated.
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