MUGA: URL Cleaner. Remove tracking von yocreoquesi

Remember when a link was just a link?

Somewhere along the way, the web got noisy. Copy a URL today and half of it is tracking: campaign codes, click IDs, tags that follow you around. Links became long, unreadable, awkward to share, and sometimes they barely work at all. None of that clutter is there for you.

MUGA cleans the tracking noise out of your URLs. It quietly removes the tracking from the links you visit, copy and share, unwraps redirect chains and reveals what a shortened link actually points to, so links stay short, clear and readable, the way they were meant to be.

What it does
. Removes tracking parameters (utm tags, click IDs, campaign codes and hundreds more) from links across the web
. Keeps the parts that actually matter, so pages never break: search terms, filters and page navigation stay intact
. Unwraps redirect chains and reveals the real destination behind shortened links
. Cleans links when you copy or right-click them, and shows you a clear before and after
. Runs automatically in the background, no setup required

We try not to cut off who recommended you
Most cleaners strip everything, including the referral of whoever recommended you the link: the reviewer, the creator, the newsletter that shared it. By default, MUGA tries to leave that credit alone, and tells you when it does. It is a best-effort intention, not a guarantee, and you stay in control: keep it, or strip every third-party referral if you prefer. Cleaning your links shouldn't mean quietly cutting off the people who make the web worth reading.

MUGA never adds an affiliate tag of its own. It doesn't monetize your clicks, on any store: there is no hidden tag, nothing added on your behalf, and your price is never touched. MUGA stays free and open source, kept going by people who choose to chip in, not by your purchases, with cleaning and every protection working just the same.

No analytics, no telemetry
MUGA processes your URLs locally, inside your browser. No analytics, no telemetry, no account, no sign-in, and it never reports your browsing to us or to anyone else. Two things do reach the network, and both are listed right here. MUGA fetches an updated tracking-param list on its own: a small signed file, with nothing about you in the request, which you can turn off. And when you open a shortened link, MUGA follows that link to find out where it really goes, so you land on a clean address instead of a tracking hop. On Firefox it asks for your permission for those short-link domains first. That request goes to the short link itself, never to us, and it happens only on links you actually open. You can turn it off in settings. Looking up a link you are only hovering over is a separate option, and it stays off unless you switch it on.

Yours to control
Turn cleaning on or off per site, add your own rules, and back up your settings whenever you like. And if you would rather keep MUGA on a shorter leash, your browser lets you limit which sites it runs on, from its own extensions settings. It is your browser. MUGA just tidies up after the trackers.

Open source, and proud of it
Every line is public on GitHub under the GPL v3 license. We built MUGA to be the URL cleaner we wanted to use ourselves: honest about what it does, and respectful of the people who keep the open web worth reading. Want the technical detail, or just want to check we do what we say? Read it, audit it, fork it.

https://github.com/yocreoquesi/muga