Pure URL

Removes garbage like "utm_source" from URLs

Pure URL: Clean up your URLs with this Firefox Add-On

'Pure URL' is a Firefox add-on designed to remove extraneous and potentially harmful fields such as 'utm_source', 'yclid', and 'fb_action_ids' from URLs. These fields are often used by sites like Google Analytics, Yandex Metrika, and Facebook for tracking and are not necessary for the functioning of the webpage. By removing these, Pure URL helps ensure a safer, cleaner browsing experience.

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Add-on stats

By: VEG

Users: 862

-1

Rating: 4.71

(31)

Version: 1.3.1resigned1 (Last updated: 2024-04-25)

Creation date: 2013-08-28

Weekly download count: 8

Firefox on Android: Yes

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
<all_urls>

Size: 11.01K

Ranking

# 3,369 ▲ 15

Other rankings

#11 in spyware keyword 40 #201 in analytics keyword 13 ▼ 3 #201 in like keyword 40 ▲ 4

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Not available on Chrome

Not available on Android

Not available on Edge

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Add-on summary

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This add-on automatically removes all garbage like "utm_source=*" from URLs. These fields are provided for the Google Analytics and they are not a necessity.

Example of URL with garbage fields:

http://bigpicture.ru/?p=431513&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bigpictures+%28%D0%9D%D0%9E%D0%92%D0%9E%D0%A1%D0%A2%D0%98+%D0%92+%D0%A4%D0%9E%D0%A2%D0%9E%D0%93%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A4%D0%98%D0%AF%D0%A5%29

Pure URL:

http://bigpicture.ru/?p=431513

By default, Pure URL removes these garbage fields: — utm_source, utm_medium, utm_term, utm_content, utm_campaign (spyware fields for the analytics.google.com) — yclid (spyware fields for the metrika.yandex.ru) — fb_action_ids, fb_action_types, fb_ref, fb_source, action_object_map, action_type_map, action_ref_map (spyware fields from the facebook.com)

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