Tool Profile

ClearURLs

Browser extension that strips tracking junk from shared URLs.

At a glance:

First seen:2026-05-10

Last seen:2026-05-10

Sightings:1

Source:docs.clearurls.xyz

What it is

Browser extension that strips tracking junk from shared URLs.

Why developers recommend it

It came up as the clean fix while people argued about banning query strings.

Hacker News evidence

2026-05-10

Commenters explicitly recommended the ClearURLs addon and pointed to Firefox’s Copy Clean Link feature as a cleaner-link workflow.

I’ve banned query strings