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Shame that this couldn't exist on iOS, where I do the majority of copying and pasting of links. Thanks, Apple.
I built a similar Mac app that removes common trackers from clipboard links. It works on your iPhone with Apple's Universal Clipboard. Copy Cleaner macOS app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1528299767
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…
"Transparently" is a conceptually similar word that had positive connotations
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…
On the other hand, giving up on using "silently" in a positive light does nothing to push back against its negative connotation and cedes the word to the negative Nancys. The author doesn't appear to be trying to make a living from this and I appreciate their using language they want to use whether or not it's approved by the marketing department.
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
I tried this recently and promptly uninstalled after discovering Google search result links were still hijacked to go through a tracker redirect.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-google...
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?
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…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"name" is definitely not a good parameter to remove...
https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper/pull/8
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.