Link Cleaner for YouTube

About

Protect your privacy and clean up messy YouTube URLs!
This extension safeguards your privacy by removing unnecessary tracking parameters from YouTube links and generates "clean links" that are perfect for sharing.

✨ Key Features ✨

🛡️ Tracking Parameter Blocking: Protects users by blocking ad and analytics tracking codes when accessing YouTube via links from external websites or programs.

🧹 Address Bar Auto-Cleanup: Automatically cleans up cluttered and unnecessary parameters in your address bar in real-time.

🔗 Clean Share Links: When generating or copying share links, parameters are removed, ensuring only the clean URL is displayed and copied.

🎥 Shorts to Video Conversion: Automatically converts YouTube Shorts URLs to the standard video player format. Access the regular video page instantly with a quick refresh.

📝 Markdown Format Support: Boost your productivity by instantly copying links in the [Video Title](URL) Markdown format.



⚙️ Technical Information (Privacy & Transparency) We use two technical methods to improve user experience and ensure privacy:

 - Network Level Detection (declarativeNetRequest): Analyzes the URL structure before the browser connects to YouTube. Using the Chrome Manifest V3 standard API, it performs an internal redirection to a 'refined URL' before unnecessary data is sent to the server. This is a process of correcting the URL format, not blocking the network request itself.

 - Dynamic Address Refinement: Even after the page loads, it utilizes the browser's History API to remove specific parameters (such as timestamps or playlists, based on user settings) from the visible address bar in real-time.


* This extension was created with the help of AI.