Jimothy's Link Shortener

Cleans long URLs on shopping, travel, and social sites — strips tracking and gives you a clean shareable link.

Long URLs from shopping, travel, and social sites are stuffed with tracking IDs, session tokens, and search breadcrumbs — often hundreds of characters of clutter. Jimothy's Link Shortener strips it automatically, so the link in your address bar (and the one you copy to share) is the clean canonical form. WHAT GETS CLEANED Two dozen popular sites are supported across three categories — shopping, travel booking, and social media / content platforms — each with hand-tuned rules for that site's URL structure. The full list is visible in the extension's popup and on the project page. The cleanup is careful about what it keeps. Parameters that change what the recipient actually sees survive: product variant selections stay locked, playlist position is kept, comment deep-links still scroll to the right comment, video timestamps survive, and paywall gift links keep working. Only the tracking clutter goes. HOW IT WORKS Land on a supported page and the address-bar URL is rewritten to its canonical short form in place — no reload, no flicker. On the largest supported shopping site, in-page product links are rewritten too, so right-click → Copy link address also gives the clean form. Right-click any link (or any page) and choose "Copy clean URL" to clean it on the spot — this works on every site, because the universal tracking-parameter stripper kicks in as a fallback. On hotel and rental listing pages, a small floating widget offers one-click copy buttons: the bare listing URL, or the listing with your selected dates included. It hides itself automatically on small screens. CONTROLS A master toggle turns everything off instantly, with a visible OFF badge. Every site has its own toggle, organized into collapsible category groups that remember how you left them. An opt-in "Universal tracking strip" (off by default) extends cleanup to every site you visit — the browser asks you to grant the wider permission the first time you enable it, and you can revoke it at any time. An Advanced settings page lets you skip chosen domains or always keep chosen parameters. All preferences sync across your browser installs. ZERO DATA COLLECTION No analytics, no telemetry, no network requests of any kind. The only thing stored is your toggle settings. Nothing ever leaves your browser. OPEN SOURCE Plain, dependency-free JavaScript with 1,545 unit tests: https://github.com/Tommytwolegs/link-shortener