Paste a link and strip the tracking parameters that platforms attach to it — utm_source, fbclid, gclid, srsltid, YouTube's si, Amazon's tag and more than sixty others. The destination stays the same. Nothing is uploaded, because the cleaning happens in your browser.
A URL cleaner strips the parts of a web address that exist to track you rather than to load the page. Copy a link from a search result, a social app or a newsletter and you often get campaign tags, click identifiers and session data trailing behind a question mark. This tool removes them and leaves the destination untouched. It does not shorten the link, redirect it, or send it anywhere.
Links copied from Google Search often carry srsltid, a measurement parameter Google appends to shopping and rich results. It tells Google which result you clicked. It does nothing for the person you send the link to. This tool removes srsltid along with gclid, gclsrc, gbraid, wbraid and dclid, so a link copied out of a search result points cleanly at the page itself.
Paste the link and press Clean URL. The tool removes every utm_ parameter — utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content, utm_term — plus the click identifiers advertising platforms attach: gclid from Google Ads, fbclid from Meta, msclkid from Microsoft, ttclid from TikTok, twclid from X, li_fat_id from LinkedIn, epik from Pinterest, sccid from Snapchat and rdt_cid from Reddit. Email platforms are covered too, including Mailchimp's mc_cid and mc_eid, HubSpot's __hstc family and Marketo's mkt_tok.
Every link YouTube's share button produces carries si, a token identifying the sharing session, and often pp alongside it. This tool removes si, pp, feature and ab_channel from youtube.com and youtu.be links. It keeps the parts that matter: the video ID, the t timestamp, and the list and index playlist position. Share a video at 2:41 and the recipient still lands at 2:41.
Amazon links carry an Associates tag plus pd_rd_ and pf_rd_ placement parameters that record where in the site you clicked. Instagram appends igsh and igshid to shared posts, Facebook appends mibextid. Newsletters add their sending platform's identifiers. The tool removes all of these while leaving the product, post or article address intact. Amazon parameters that select a variant or a specific seller — psc, th and smid — are only removed in aggressive mode, because dropping them can change which offer opens.
A YouTube share link arrives as https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=kJ2mNp4Qr7sT and becomes https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ. An Amazon link arrives as https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N5WRWNW?tag=someaffiliate-20&pd_rd_w=9xKp2 and becomes https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N5WRWNW. A newsletter link arrives as https://example.com/article?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR3x and becomes https://example.com/article.
A tracking parameter is a record of where you found something, attached to a message you send someone else. Removing it keeps that detail to yourself. The practical benefits stack up as well: a short link is easier to read, survives being pasted into chat without wrapping, and does not look like spam. Clean links before pasting into documents, chat threads, issue trackers, citations and social posts.
Safe mode removes parameters that are unambiguously tracking. It is the default and it is the right choice almost always. Aggressive mode additionally removes affiliate identifiers, generic referrer parameters and session identifiers such as PHPSESSID and JSESSIONID. Those are riskier: a session identifier can be tied to a logged-in state, and a referrer parameter is occasionally load-bearing. The tool warns you when it removes one. Keep essential params, on by default, protects the parameters a page genuinely needs.
The cleaning runs as JavaScript in your browser. The link you paste is never sent to a server, which is why the tool works with your network disconnected. There is no account, no installation and no extension permission to grant. History is off by default, and when you switch it on the entries are written to this browser's local storage and nowhere else.
This table is generated from the cleaning rules themselves, so it always matches what the tool actually does. Parameters listed as site-specific are only removed on the domains that use them, which is why a tag parameter disappears on Amazon but survives on your own blog.
| Parameter | Service | Category | Applies to | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ef_id | Adobe | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| s_kwcid | Adobe | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| spm | Alibaba | Analytics | All sites | Safe |
| _encoding | Amazon | Functional | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| ascsubtag | Amazon | Affiliate | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| camp | Amazon | Affiliate | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| creative | Amazon | Affiliate | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| creativeASIN | Amazon | Affiliate | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| linkCode | Amazon | Affiliate | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| linkId | Amazon | Affiliate | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| pd_rd_(matches any parameter starting with this) | Amazon | Analytics | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| pf_rd_(matches any parameter starting with this) | Amazon | Analytics | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| psc | Amazon | Analytics | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Aggressive |
| qid | Amazon | Functional | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| smid | Amazon | Analytics | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Aggressive |
| sr | Amazon | Functional | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| tag | Amazon | Affiliate | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Safe |
| th | Amazon | Analytics | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk +18 | Aggressive |
| at_campaign | AT Internet | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| at_custom | AT Internet | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| at_medium | AT Internet | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| _branch_match_id | Branch | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| _branch_referrer | Branch | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| dclid | DoubleClick | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| fbclid | Click identifier | All sites | Safe | |
| gad_(matches any parameter starting with this) | Google Ads | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| gbraid | Google Ads | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| gclid | Google Ads | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| gclsrc | Google Ads | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| srsltid | Google Ads | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| wbraid | Google Ads | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| __hsfp | HubSpot | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| __hssc | HubSpot | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| __hstc | HubSpot | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| hsCtaTracking | HubSpot | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| igshid | Share token | All sites | Safe | |
| jsessionid | Java | Session | All sites | Aggressive |
| li_fat_id | Click identifier | All sites | Safe | |
| mc_cid | Mailchimp | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| mc_eid | Mailchimp | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| mkt_tok | Marketo | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| _nc_(matches any parameter starting with this) | Meta | Analytics | facebook.com, instagram.com +3 | Safe |
| igsh | Meta | Share token | facebook.com, instagram.com +3 | Safe |
| mibextid | Meta | Share token | facebook.com, instagram.com +3 | Safe |
| rdid | Meta | Share token | facebook.com, instagram.com +3 | Safe |
| refsrc | Meta | Share token | facebook.com, instagram.com +3 | Safe |
| share_url | Meta | Share token | facebook.com, instagram.com +3 | Safe |
| msclkid | Microsoft Ads | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| oly_anon_id | Omeda | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| oly_enc_id | Omeda | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| elqTrack | Oracle Eloqua | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| elqTrackId | Oracle Eloqua | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| phpsessid | PHP | Session | All sites | Aggressive |
| epik | Click identifier | All sites | Safe | |
| rdt_cid | Click identifier | All sites | Safe | |
| sccid | Snapchat | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| tblci | Taboola | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| ttclid | TikTok | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| twclid | Twitter / X | Click identifier | All sites | Safe |
| utm_(matches any parameter starting with this) | UTM / Urchin | Campaign tag | All sites | Safe |
| aff_id | Various | Affiliate | All sites | Aggressive |
| affiliate_id | Various | Affiliate | All sites | Aggressive |
| ref | Various | Analytics | All sites | Aggressive |
| ref_(matches any parameter starting with this) | Various | Analytics | All sites | Aggressive |
| referrer | Various | Analytics | All sites | Aggressive |
| cmpid | Various publishers | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| ncid | Various publishers | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| wickedid | Various publishers | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| vero_conv | Vero | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| vero_id | Vero | Email and marketing | All sites | Safe |
| ab_channel | YouTube | Analytics | youtube.com, youtu.be +1 | Safe |
| feature | YouTube | Analytics | youtube.com, youtu.be +1 | Safe |
| kw | YouTube | Analytics | youtube.com, youtu.be +1 | Safe |
| pp | YouTube | Share token | youtube.com, youtu.be +1 | Safe |
| si | YouTube | Share token | youtube.com, youtu.be +1 | Safe |
Some parameters look like clutter but decide what the page actually shows. Removing them would hand someone a link that opens the wrong thing, so the tool protects them by default.
q
Search query param
id
Generic identifier
v
Video identifier (YouTube)
p
Page / path identifier
tstartlistindex
Timestamp and playlist position
More than sixty named tracking parameters plus six prefix families. That covers every utm_ tag, the click identifiers used by Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat and Reddit, the sending identifiers used by Mailchimp, HubSpot, Marketo, Vero, Eloqua and Omeda, and site-specific share tokens from YouTube, Amazon, Instagram and Facebook.
srsltid is a search result identifier Google appends to links in shopping and rich results so it can attribute the click. It carries no meaning for whoever receives the link, and removing it opens exactly the same page.
They are click identifiers. gclid comes from Google Ads, fbclid from Facebook and Instagram, msclkid from Microsoft Advertising. Each one ties a visit back to a specific ad click and a specific person's session. The destination page ignores them.
Yes in safe mode. Safe mode only removes parameters known to be tracking, and Keep essential params protects the ones a page relies on. Aggressive mode goes further and can strip a session or referrer parameter that a site actually uses, so open an important link once before sending it on.
No. It edits the text of a link you paste, nothing more. It cannot delete a web page, remove a result from Google Search, disavow a backlink, or take a link off someone else's site.
Paste a link, see exactly which trackers came off it, and copy the clean version. Nothing leaves your browser.
