Quick Links
A URL (i.e.
a web address) is often more than meets the eye.
Why Clean Links?
This isn’t always a bad thing.
For example, How-To Geek is partly funded through referrals.
That link might earn us a commission and cost readers like you nothing.
Remove Tracking Parameters
Look at this example URL:
See that bit after the question mark?
Those are tracking parameters that tell the site you’re visiting where you found the link.
This jumps you to a subsection of the page, which in most cases is probably what you want.
For example, there are surfing app extensions that will do this for you automatically.
Instead, it’s safer to use an online link cleaning tool such asURL Clean.
Here you paste your link, hit the “Clean It!”
button, and you should see the extracted clean link appear.
Cleaning a link does not however make it safe!
Remember not to choose links you get in unsolicited emails or messages!
