LinkSanitizer

Description

I decided to write this app when I noticed a variety of useless links appearing in my browser history. By 'useless links', I mean things like links to URL shorteners, amp links, tracking links, and so forth.

This app is an attempt to get rid of them. It intercepts each web link you click on in your email client, in your maps app, in your podcast player, in your social media apps, and wherever links are to be found (other than in a web browser), tries to clean up the links, and then passes the cleaned-up links to your web browser.

This app automatically follows redirects (where appropriate), simplifies URLs, dodges tracking where it can, and generally tries to make the links you come across a little better.

This app does not track the links you visit or anything else. The source code of this app is freely available from the website given below, and is licensed under the GPLv3

Note that some links may misbehave when given to this app, particularly links that put extra effort into tracking you, such as verification links or links to servers that attempt to forbid automatic access