URL Cleaner

Elegant Matter URL Cleaner distinguishes campaign tracking from parameters needed for a product option, language, search, or video timestamp. Its public explanation says recognized tracking parameters are removed while uncertain ones stay. The founder says that caution is the point. Deleting UTM tags by hand is easy to get wrong, some cleaners are aggressive, and URL Cleaner removes only the parameters it can identify with confidence and explains what changed.

According to the founder, the rules come from documentation published by the services that use these parameters, plus research into browser privacy features and existing open-source cleaners, rather than imported blocklists. Each rule is tested against links where removal should work and cases where the parameter might be needed, and rules are versioned and shared between the website and the Chrome extension. One example the founder gives is a Pracuj.pl job listing that kept several search and promotion parameters, partly because a name like "ref" means different things on different sites. The fix was a narrow rule for that site's public listings that left the general rules no more aggressive.

The page offers single and bulk modes. It describes preserving bulk order and duplicate links, with separate results for changed, unchanged, protected, and invalid rows. The Chrome extension adds a right-click option to clean a link without opening the site, and the founder notes that its optional automatic cleaning doesn't cover every kind of navigation. Use synthetic examples before relying on a particular link format.

The site says cleaning runs locally without opening destinations or following shortened links, and it describes protecting recognized signed URLs. The founder adds that it won't expand short links, check whether a destination works, or detect malicious links, and that it sometimes leaves a tracking parameter in place when its purpose isn't clear. The public pages can't confirm the local-processing claim or how accurate the classifications are, and a cleaned link can still point to an unsafe or unwanted destination.