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
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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.
Rustem Mussabekov
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Cleaning feature to supress classocal unuseful pparts of URLs
Serge Courrier
It would be useful to have a cleaning feature wich could suppress unuseful parts of URLs like UTM, fbclid...
Rustem Mussabekov
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Auto remove utm_source
Relan
I would have auto remove:
utm_source
utm_medium
utm_campaign
from url, then I add url to collection
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Maxime M
I approve the idea, but it has a kind of duplicate with more votes here ;) https://better.raindrop.io/feature-requests/p/auto-remove-utmsource
Please do your best to check for existing ideas before posting :)
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dsent
That would be super helpful! I have quite a few duplicates because of this. Also, the browser extension icon doesn't correctly shows that the page is already added to my collections if utm_source and the likes differ.
Sebastian Kroll
I would support this and also would add (referral) parameters from specific sites like Amazon, Instagram, ...
If it would be interesting I could collect these
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Maxime M
Sebastian Kroll: Don't waste time, collect that from the ClearURLs extension's database if needed :)