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TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

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Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#21

As much as I like TrackerZapper or ClearURLs for pasting links, it sets a precedent of tools that modify clipboards, which is bad for crypto addresses.

Agree. I would love to have a mobile app that did this as an explicit function: “copy url without tracking”

Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#22
Nice app! Have to say it’s pretty clean.

For those who may be looking at similar functionality in presxisting software, I bet you could build this with Hammerspoon[0] and their clipboard[1][2] apis too using lua if one was inclined

[0]: https://www.hammerspoon.org/

[1]: https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.pasteboard.html

[2]: https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.pasteboard.watcher.html

Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#23

Does it really need to sit in my menubar?

I've never understood why apps get the final say on what goes in my menubar in macOS. Skype says I need a menubar icon; I say I don't. Why does Skype's opinion trump mine?

Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#24

Does it really need to sit in my menubar?

Fwiw there are some apps to hide menu bar icons:

- Open source https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer

- Freemium https://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/

- $15 https://www.macbartender.com/

Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#25
post #23

Does it really need to sit in my menubar?

I've never understood why apps get the final say on what goes in my menubar in macOS. Skype says I need a menubar icon; I say I don't. Why does Skype's opinion trump mine?

Because the Apple software product model isn't built to be customizable by the end user.

Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#26

Does it really need to sit in my menubar?

That's what I was thinking. On top of that, if it's only a menubar app, why wouldn't you write it in some platform-agnostic language? I have a similar "toolbar sitter" app I wrote with a couple Rust crates and a free afternoon, and that compiles to Windows/Mac/Linux fine. I guess it's more of a Swift exercise than a full-fledged program.

Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#27
It's unusual to see the word "silently" used as a selling point these days. In headlines, it's almost always used in the context of some bad behavior and as such has taken on negative connotations for me. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=silently

I plugged the title of this post into a few online sentiment analysis tools and they both rated it as having negative sentiment. If the author sees this, you might want to swap it out for another word like "automatically" in the readme.

Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#28
post #20

I assume this only works on well known tracker formats? I don’t see how a tool like this could distinguish necessary url parameters from tracking parameters unless it is going off a list of known tracking params.

They are hardcoded here https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper/blob/main/Tracker...

"name" is definitely not a good parameter to remove...

Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#29
post #20

I assume this only works on well known tracker formats? I don’t see how a tool like this could distinguish necessary url parameters from tracking parameters unless it is going off a list of known tracking params.

They are hardcoded here https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper/blob/main/Tracker...

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Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

#30
post #28
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are hardcoded here https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper/blob/main/Tracker...

"name" is definitely not a good parameter to remove...

https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper/pull/8
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