Rules vs Neat-URL

Rules

Rules database of the ClearURLs WebExtension. (by ClearURLs)

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Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as Google Analytics' utm parameters. (by Smile4ever)

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Rules		Neat-URL
	Project
3	Mentions	4
123	Stars	604
2.4%	Growth	-
6.7	Activity	0.0
24 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Rules

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rules. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-05.

Report: YouTube adding individualized ID tag to links shared off-platform
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023

ClearURLs implemented the rule to remove the si attribute on November 5th[1].
I think a better approach though is to whitelist allowed attributes rather than blacklist disallowed attributes. For example, if you get a URL starting "https://www.youtube.com/watch?" then the only allowed attributes are v, t, etc and everything else would be stripped.
[1] https://github.com/ClearURLs/Rules/commit/f4d52da5902640d4d0...
ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2021

I like this idea. I've been using a bit of Ruby wrapped into my shell to remove Facebook's tracking from links[1] but it's nice to have so many in one place that we all can contribute to.
It seems the interesting bit (for me) is in the Rules[2] repo.
[1] https://gist.github.com/yb66/d39109df620ab1db2a46c943111c31d...
[2] https://github.com/ClearURLs/Rules

Neat-URL

Posts with mentions or reviews of Neat-URL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-05.

With less than a day to go, I'm considering getting into Pathfinder with the Humble Bundle, is it worth it?
1 project | /r/Pathfinder_RPG | 1 Apr 2022
ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2021

Looks like the syntax used by NeatURL, see https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL#parameter-rules
Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2021

Check out Neat URL - it's more basic, uses a comma-separated list of rules, and comes with some hard-coded presets you can override. I maintain my list in a text file and just update that and copy/paste in when I want to create one.
Of the defaults, I only override "cid, mbid" as blocking those on every site has ended up breaking some.
https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL
queryprune doesn't work properly on amazon
2 projects | /r/uBlockOrigin | 19 Feb 2021

I think only NeatURL removes these https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Rules and Neat-URL you can also consider the following projects:

ClearURLs-Addon - ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.

Universal-Bypass - Don't waste your time with compliance. Universal Bypass circumvents annoying link shorteners.

ClearUrls

uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin

clean-links - What happens in your browser, stays in your browser.

AdguardBrowserExtension - AdGuard browser extension

uMatrix-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uMatrix

promnesia - Another piece of your extended mind

focus-ios - ⚠️ Firefox Focus (iOS) has moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios

FilterLists - :shield: The independent, comprehensive directory of filter and host lists for advertisements, trackers, malware, and annoyances.

uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.