Reviews for Neat URL
Neat URL by Geoffrey De Belie
Review by Firefox user 13720255
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 13720255, 5 years agoGreat idea for an add on, but unfortunately it's broken for use with google because of problems with domain-specific blocking. There have been tickets open since mid-2018, but there doesn't seem to be any interest or progress in fixing them.
PS - Sorry if my review seems harsh, but given how dominant Google is (and given how aggressive they are with tracking) shouldn't the information page mention that it doesn't work with Google? Just seems like a prudent thing to do to help people with basic "surfing safety." Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your efforts on the tool, and it looks like it could be very handy, but I was pretty unhappy when I thought it was performing an important privacy protection function it wasn't.
PS - Sorry if my review seems harsh, but given how dominant Google is (and given how aggressive they are with tracking) shouldn't the information page mention that it doesn't work with Google? Just seems like a prudent thing to do to help people with basic "surfing safety." Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your efforts on the tool, and it looks like it could be very handy, but I was pretty unhappy when I thought it was performing an important privacy protection function it wasn't.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoDon't be so harsh. It's voluntary development and I maintain the interest to fix bugs in Neat URL because of its popularity.
You are free to submit pull requests to fix problems you encounter.
You are free to submit pull requests to fix problems you encounter.
139 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by George Pchelkin, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pix0wl, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SJ, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by walkingice, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mateo, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13202285, 2 years agoCame over from Clear URLs since it broke payment portals from time-to-time. Neat URL seems to strike a nice balance between maintaining privacy and not interfering with the browsing experience. Thanks to the developer!
- Rated 5 out of 5by retrovertigo, 2 years agoGreat tool! Sorry marketing ppl.
Looking forward to v6 :) - Rated 5 out of 5by agreement, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5509918, 2 years agoХорошее расширение. Было бы удобно иметь возможность редактировать список дефолтных правил прямо в его окне вместо того, чтобы добавлять исключения. Ещё было бы хорошо добавлять сразу несколько параметров для одного домена, типа [param1, param2, param3]@domain.com
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5612562, 2 years agoMoved away from CleanLinks because it would break too many sites with the embedded url feature. I do wish Neat URL had regex support and a UI to easily add more blocks and to troubleshoot/see what has been blocked, but it works great either way. I'm attaching my custom blocking rules that include stuff I've exported from CleanLinks- https://pastebin.com/Hgae9Ans
- Rated 5 out of 5by ChungYu, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by peacefulpotato, 2 years agoI used ClearURLs for a while until I learned that it made constant requests to Cloudflare. This one is almost perfect but it doesn't seem to work on AMO. Probably a browser restriction, though.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Iyanuoluwa Ajao, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Barraguesh, 3 years agoClearURLs refugee here. As another comment said, ClearURLs breaks some websites like Decathlon (from time to time) plus this one is lighter so it's a win win.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sergey Twersky, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TechD123, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Volkman, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aznörth, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15353585, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Wocky, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vedun, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by K3A, 3 years agoCame from ClearURLs and am happy. This is lightweight addon which does one thing and does it perfectly - cleaning urls. I hate how ClearURLs does much much more, it totally bloated and by default breaks important ETag caching functionality.