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ClearURLs / Rules

Rules database of the ClearURLs WebExtension.
https://docs.clearurls.xyz/latest/specs/rules/
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Not working on a particular website #107

Closed lamyergeier closed 3 months ago

lamyergeier commented 3 months ago

On the website when I click links it adds some text at the end of the url. For example, following is a snippet from the URL

You should find it in most Linux distributions through the default repositories. But, if you need help installing, go through the [GitHub page](https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator?ref=itsfoss.com).

We can see that it adds ?ref=itsfoss.com

Why does the extension doesn't removes that? What should I do?

KevinRoebert commented 3 months ago

That is correct and due to this line: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Rules/blob/master/data.min.json#L329. This is done due to a request from GitHub, that they actually need this parameter, see https://gitlab.com/ClearURLs/rules/-/merge_requests/12

lamyergeier commented 3 months ago

@KevinRoebert In the aforementioned url the GitHub employee cited the privacy policy of Github at at that time. But the privacy policy keeps changing. Is it possible that you could provide option in advanced settings to toggle blocking this? Many people who don't trust github.com to have benign privacy policy might be happy to use this. You may provide a warning to the user with a url pointing to that issue.