Addon

It's not the same, as it only works on the receiving end, but I use the ClearURLs addon for stripping that out. At least it somewhat helps, and ensures that any URL I copy from my browser doesn't have tracking IDs. https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon

Is this available as pastable text, ideally with the explanation parts as comment blocks? Happy to see you recommend uBlock Origin and LocalCDN. I would humbly suggest ClearURLs might belong. Another excellent "set it and forget it" extension that skips common tracking redirects. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/clearurls/ https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon

In that spirit I have a userscript, ironically called Youtube HD[0], that with one edit sets the resolution to 'medium' ie 360p. On a laptop it's plenty for talking head content (the softening is nice actually), and I only find myself switching to 480p if there's small text on screen. It's a small thing, but as you say internet video is relatively heavy. To reduce my AI footprint I use the udm=14 trick[1] to kill AI in Google search. It generally gives better results too. For general web browsing the best single tip is running uBlock Origin. If you can master medium[2] or hard mode (which will require un-breaking/whitelisting sites) it saves more bandwidth and has better privacy.[3] To go all-out on bandwidth conservation, LocalCDN[4] and CleanURLs[5] are good. "Set it and forget it," improves privacy and load times, and saves a bit of

This is the "God-like powers" extension. The "set it and forget it" extension is called ClearURLs. There's also Request Control, which is probably what you're looking for. More powerful than Redirector actually, but it comes with some common rules built in (not as comprehensive as ClearURLs though). https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon https://github.com/slymax/request-control

I run the ClearURLs extension [0], so when I click that link - or most Amazon affiliate links, or an O365 tracking link, or many other tracking links, it sends me straight to the destination without hitting Google's servers. A feature request/complaint is that it doesn't support hovering to see the target URL/check if the particular tracking domain is supported, for example Tom's Hardware uses a "georiot.com" tracker that embeds GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp... %3Dtomshardware-us-1038331347314950500-20... and doesn't successfully parse out the raw amazon.com/dp/[product ID] link. [0]: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon

For those looking for similar functionality in Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, I've been using ClearURLs[0] for several years in Firefox and Firefox on Android. It works well. 0: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon

The ClearURLs addon [1] also gives you the in-browser option to copy "clean link location," as they call it. [1] https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon

And they get loaded down with query string fields for analytics. I kill those with https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon

The README on the repo itself links to gitlab, including the "create an issue" link: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/#contribute

>I don't see why ClearURLs couldn't add this functionality. I think the problem is that, for security reasons, ClearURLs can't change URLs arbitratily. It can only remove parts of it, so the actual URL would have to be a parameter. See [1] for a relevant comment by the extension's author. [1] https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/issues/102#issuecomment-8...

The developer addressed this comment here https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/issues/102#issuecomment-8...

It seems there's a line which requires such permission: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/blob/master/external_js/c... document.execCommand("copy"); I personally do not know, just going by what's stated within the URL in the adjoining comment (https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/co...).