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I am not the author. I was just so tired of having to manually strip crap like "?utm_term=.b1e20fe33a88" from the end of URLs before sharing them. This extension solves that problem nicely.

I wonder why Google doesn't build something into Chrome that just hides this crap from the visible URL? I guess they could get some PR pushback from paranoids if they did that though. Better to just hide behind some fictitious UTM Inc.

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I think the share UI in Chrome mobile already strips that data, provided the site you're on defines a canonical URL in a link tag.

I want my browser to strip UTM from links when I follow them, not just when I share them.

Why? Just install a blocker extension to stop all of these analytics and tracking solutions, rather than fairly benign UTM tags.

The site you visit can still use that information with an ad blocker.

cheers. this was the first appealing thing that came to mind. I am constantly stripping off those query string parameters just to share stuff.

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