URL Cleaner by Elegant Matter: strip tracking tags from links safely

About URL Cleaner by Elegant Matter

URL Cleaner, from the Elegant Matter site, removes tracking junk from links before you share or save them: UTM tags, click IDs and similar parameters. You paste a link, or a whole list of them in bulk mode, and get back a cleaned version with a clear count of what was removed and what was kept.

What makes it trustworthy is how cautious it is. Many link cleaners strip every parameter and break the link. This one removes only parameters covered by conservative, versioned rules, a short allowlist of well-known tracking parameters plus narrowly scoped rules for specific domains, and keeps anything unknown or functional-looking. It also leaves the rest of the link exactly as it was, including parameter order, duplicates and encoding. In bulk mode, line order is preserved and invalid rows are reported rather than silently dropped.

You can add your own rules to always remove or always keep a parameter, everywhere or only on a given domain. These are saved only in your browser, and the page says the URLs you clean are not sent anywhere. The same rules work in a companion Chrome extension, which can clean the current page, clean links from the right-click menu, or optionally clean links automatically when you click them.

It is free and needs no account.