Feature Idea: Suggested URL about canonical HOT 4 OPEN

I'd like that. I used to use CleanLinks but it was never ported to web extension. And most of the referrer cleaner extensions either don't catch most of them or do funky stuff.

Other extensions that kinda do stuff like this:
Don't Track Me Google - source
NeatURL - source
SearchLinkFix - source
ClearURLs - source
Pure URL
Untrack Me
URL Tracking Protector

Personally, I've just been trying to find something as feature complete as CleanLinks for over a year. It just did so much.

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Do note a major distinction in what I'm suggesting though. Unlike those other solutions, the Canonical add-on will never automatically redirect the URL or manipulate the user's browsing experience in any way.

It would merely be a suggestion, which could then be manually clicked on. So, if you land on a tracking URL like https://example.com/?utm_source=Cookie%2BMonster&, you land on it and remain there.

But, like how a the "C" icon will appear if there's a suggested canonical link, an "S" icon would appear if there isn't, but just as an additional option to quickly go to and copy a "cleaner" URL.

So, for example, here's a similar solution I wrote in PHP to dynamically grab the cleanest URL:

<?php
$protocol = isset( $_SERVER['HTTPS'] ) ? 'https' : 'http';
$request_uri = parse_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH );
echo '{$protocol}://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}{$request_uri}';
?>

That would need to be rewritten in JS and then integrated into the add-on's conditional to display if no canonical link is found at all.

With that understanding, you'd still be interested in that feature?

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lol anything that strips stuff out of url's either for copy/pasting purposes or for privacy I like.

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Hmm, well I'll have to look into it once I get some time or if anyone else can help in the meantime, please do! Thanks.

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