TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy

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  • TrackerZapper

    Menubar app to remove link tracking parameters automatically

  • Pull request has been merged and released as version 1.1.1 https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper/releases/tag/1.1....

  • hammerspoon

    Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

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  • Dozer

    Hide menu bar icons on macOS

  • Fwiw there are some apps to hide menu bar icons:

    Open source https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer

    It's unusual to see the word "silently" used as a selling point these days. It almost always has negative connotations, especially when used in isolation without another more positive adjective like "easily" or "simply". https://hn.algolia.com/?q=silently

    I plugged the title of this post into a few online sentiment analysis tools and they both rated it as having negative sentiment. If the author sees this, you might want to swap it out for another word like "automatically" in the readme.

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    Source code extensions in the official PopClip Extensions directory.

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    Dotfiles for 2023, Managed with chezmoi (by halostatue)

  • This can also be done with Finicky and some configuration, and doesn’t require anything that observes the pasteboard.

    Here’s the section of the config (~/.finicky.js) that sets it up; the actual tracker cleaning is the last item in that list and is based on the above.

    https://github.com/halostatue/dotfiles/blob/main/private_dot...

    https://github.com/johnste/finicky

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