Broken as of a couple days ago?

newhouse / url-tracking-stripper

An open-source Chrome Extension that will remove the tracking parameters from URLs to keep them short and cleaner for sharing, bookmarking, etc. It will also skip any known redirects and take you straight to the target URL instead of passing you through an intermediate URL.

MIT License

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Broken as of a couple days ago? #82

Closed 1337ingDisorder closed 4 years ago

1337ingDisorder commented 4 years ago

For the past couple days I've noticed some tracking stuff slipping through.

The latest example:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwjpd/someone-just-moved-a-billion-dollars-in-bitcoin-and-no-one-knows-why?unfurl%3Futm_source=mbfb

newhouse commented 4 years ago

Hmm, that's just some shotty web coding there: they've URL-encoded the &, resulting in a %3F. As it's not part of a redirect (where it might have eventually been caught and stripped), I'm not sure if I'm going to go the route of stripping URL-encoded params at this time. Will consider it, though, in the future.