Link Sanitizer Recommendations for PC and GOS

ice5479 · February 19, 2026, 3:10am

Does anyone have any recommendations for sanitizing links before opening/sharing them? I am looking for options on PC and mobile (GrapheneOS). Currently, I have only been able to find https://urlcleaner.net/ for browser use and GitHub - TrianguloY/URLCheck: Android app by TrianguloY: URLCheck for android but I don’t see many people recommending them online. Are these the best options?

FranklyFlawless · February 19, 2026, 6:26am

uBlock Origin’s Logger + uBlock Origin Scope, $removeparam plus various syntax in custom static filter rules, and a lot of time to maintain and refine them.

kissu · February 19, 2026, 7:54am

Brave has this feature baked-in.

There are a few browsers extensions for that too but I wouldn’t recommend those because you never know what runs on there.
Most of the time it can actually be done manually by just keeping the initial left part of the URL.

FranklyFlawless · February 19, 2026, 8:07am

Right, here is the GitHub wiki page for that feature:

Brave has a manually-curated static filter list, but it is not compatible with uBlock Origin because the JSON file is not EasyList syntax-formatted:

github.com/brave/adblock-lists

brave-lists/clean-urls.json

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[
    {
        "include": [
            "*://*.facebook.com/*"
        ],
        "exclude": [],
        "params": [ 
            "__cft__%5B0%5D",
            "__cft__[0]",
            "__tn__",
            "acontext",
            "external_ref",
            "gd_impression_id",
            "idorvanity",
            "ref",
            "referrer",
            "sale_post_id",
            "set",
            "source",
            "store_visit_source",

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