Strip tracking parameters from a link
Shared URLs carry utm_*, fbclid, and friends that report your click. Remove them before you repost or save the link.
Tools used in this guide
The job
You copied a link from a share button or newsletter and it is long with ?utm_source=…&fbclid=…. Those parameters tell the site which campaign brought the click — and arguably which person shared it. For reposting, you usually want only the address of the page.
How to do it
Paste the URL and run it. The tool removes a fixed list of known trackers — utm_*, fbclid, gclid, msclkid, igshid, spm, and similar — then shows the cleaned URL and exactly which parameters were dropped, so you can check nothing essential was lost.
Worked example
https://example.com/article?utm_medium=social&id=42&fbclid=abc123 becomes https://example.com/article?id=42 — the content parameter stays, both trackers go.
Limits
Unrecognized parameters are kept on purpose — deleting them can break pages that need an id, page number, or filter to load. A few sites misbehave when even a tracker is removed; if the clean link fails, fall back to the original. Fragments (#…) and the path are never touched.