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.
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
#22For 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
#23Does it really need to sit in my menubar?
Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy
#24Does it really need to sit in my menubar?
- Open source https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer
- Freemium https://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/
Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy
#25Does 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
#26Does it really need to sit in my menubar?
Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy
#27I 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
#28I 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...
Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy
#29I 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...
Re: TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are hardcoded here https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper/blob/main/Tracker...
"name" is definitely not a good parameter to remove...