Remove urchin tokens from URLs

Much like Pinboard, please add the feature of stripping utm_campaign & etc query args from URLs that Pinboard opens. They make copy/pasting URLs harder and I dislike them on principle

https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/06/war_on_urchin/

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I don’t agree with Maciej’s action on that. I am very careful about changing a publisher’s content. I only strip out unsafe elements but generally I leave it as they intended it. It’s part of the reason that the Original view exists at all. It’s the publisher’s intent and I do not want to start an arms race. Ad blockers are the same way.

If a publisher chooses to use link trackers then that’s part of their package. I don’t think it’s a good thing that they track us the way they do, but it’s their business model and I’m not going to get in the habit of blocking or censoring things.

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Depending on your browser, you can use extensions to remove the tokens from the URLs automatically.
Links to Firefox and Chrome options: https://www.404techsupport.com/2011/01/remove-the-contaminating-utm_-values-in-urls-in-google-chrome…

I also hate these things but it extends well beyond NewsBlur.