LinkPure

Tracking parameters are extra bits of information added to URLs that websites use to monitor your online behavior. These parameters can track where you came from, what you clicked, your browsing history, and more. While sometimes useful for analytics, they can also compromise your privacy.

Common tracking parameters include UTM codes (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign), affiliate IDs, session identifiers, and other metadata that can reveal your browsing patterns to third parties. For example, an Amazon link might include parameters like tag=affiliate-123 or ref_=pd_sl that identify where the click originated.

When you share these links or visit them, companies can build detailed profiles about your interests, location, purchasing behavior, and browsing patterns. This data is often shared with third parties for advertising and analytics purposes.

Cleaning links helps protect your privacy by removing tracking information before you visit a website. This prevents websites from building detailed profiles about your browsing habits, location, and interests. By using LinkPure, you maintain control over what information companies can collect about you.

Additionally, removing affiliate parameters ensures that you're not unintentionally supporting referral programs when sharing links with friends and family. When you share a clean link, you're sharing the product or content itself, not a tracking-enabled version that credits someone else for the referral.

Clean links are also shorter, easier to read, and less likely to break when copied and pasted. They work the same way as tracked links but without the privacy concerns or unwanted affiliate tracking.

LinkPure processes your links entirely in your browser when possible, meaning your URLs are never sent to our servers. This ensures complete privacy and security for your links. Even when server-side processing is required for certain platforms, we don't log, store, or analyze your URLs.

As an open-source tool, you can verify exactly how LinkPure works by reviewing the source code on GitHub. You can even host it yourself for complete control over your data. No tracking, no analytics, no data collection—just a simple tool that cleans your links.

LinkPure follows privacy-by-design principles, meaning privacy is built into the tool from the ground up, not added as an afterthought. This approach ensures that your data remains yours, always.

LinkPure uses sophisticated algorithms to identify and remove tracking parameters while preserving the essential parts of your URL. The tool recognizes patterns used by major e-commerce platforms and video services to track users.

For Amazon links, LinkPure removes affiliate tags, referral codes, and marketing campaign parameters. For AliExpress, it strips out tracking cookies and referral information. YouTube redirects are resolved to their original destination. Each platform has its own specific tracking mechanisms, and LinkPure handles them all.

The cleaning process is fast, automatic, and requires no technical knowledge. Simply paste your link and click clean—LinkPure does the rest. See our list of supported platforms to learn which services are compatible.