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CleanLinks by Cimbali

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6 reviews
  • by jawz101, a year ago
    After a decade of this add-onb it praise because it is very powerful, I have decided to drop it back down to how I really feel. I hate it. I know it is powerful but I've never understood how to use its rule engine nor understand the concepts.
    It is powerful and does something but it's not quite clear. I think it can use several techniques to control what urls do but none of them make sense and I don't know who does know. The UI speaks volumes about its unintuitive.purpose
    I wish it at least did not do what other, more popular add-ons do so I can see what value it offers over other add-ons. Otherwise, I don't see it getting any traction

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Sorry to see you go jawz and thanks for all the feedback you’ve given over the years.

    The thing this add-on does and others don’t is simply auto-detect embedded URLs. This also causes many breakages and means the ruleset has to be whitelisting instead of when & how to clean links…

    I’m sure the UI and many other things can be improved, but I have limited time on my hands, Also any suggestions on improvements of the UI or anything else are always welcome.
  • by peterfnet, 5 years ago
    Breaks sites like fakespot.com. As soon as I disable it, site works again.

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    As explained in its description, the extension blocks all links that contain hidden URLs inside them. You can then whitelist manually which use cases seem reasonable to you from the add-on’s popup menu.
  • by Firefox user 14043159, 5 years ago
    Android version doesn't work for my Android Firefox.
  • by Firefox user 14702040, 6 years ago
    Broke images loading in Gmail emails and Hangouts. Took me a long time to finally figure out it was this extension.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Hi @user14702040, sometimes you can be tracked by images, and when that is automatically detected the add-on blocks them.

    Fortunately you can easily whitelist per domain by clicking the add-on icon, selecting the offending link, and click "Whitelist Selection."

    You can also choose to have the application only clean links that you clean, not other resources loaded, by unticking "Clean outgoing HTTP Requests" in the add-on preferences.
  • by Black🏴‍☠️Sails, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 12655166, 6 years ago
    Can't login to google/gmail with this addon enabled, no matter wot?
    In setting I added also "google.com" to be excepted, but no luck...

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Hi, if you open the recently cleaned links popup (using the addon button), you'll see recently cleaned links and you can whitelist the correct one easily (probably accounts.google.com or something like that).

    If that doesn't work, would you care to post a bug report on https://github.com/Cimbali/CleanLinks/issues ? I'd be happy to figure out what goes wrong once I know which version you use, which browser, etc.