Copy a link without the tracking parameters bolted onto it.
Right-click any link and copy it without utm_source, fbclid, gclid and the rest.
One of the eight tools in the Sidecar Studios extension. One download, one licence key.
Clean Copy is a Chrome extension that strips tracking parameters from links when you copy them. Right-click any link, choose "Copy clean link", and the address reaches your clipboard without utm_source, fbclid, gclid and roughly ninety other campaign trackers, and requests no access to any website at all.
What it removes
Campaign and click tracking only. Parameters like utm_source, utm_campaign, fbclid, gclid, msclkid, mc_eid, igshid and mkt_tok, plus a set that are tracking only on particular sites: si on YouTube and Spotify, s and t on X, the affiliate and referrer trail on Amazon.
What it never removes
Anything that might mean something to the page you are linking to. Search queries, page numbers, video timestamps, reset tokens, fragments. The list is an allowlist of known trackers rather than a guess, so a cleaned link always still works.
That tradeoff is deliberate. A link that works and is almost entirely clean is worth more than a link that is perfectly clean and broken.
Why not intercept every copy
Intercepting the clipboard on every page would require permission to read and change data on every website you visit. Doing the same job from a right-click menu needs no site access whatsoever, and it is honest about when it runs. The menu item is one extra motion in exchange for an extension that genuinely cannot watch you.
Permissions
None. No site access at all. There is no content script, so nothing runs on any page you visit until you pick the menu item yourself.
About Clean Copy
Will the cleaned link still work?
Yes. Only parameters known to be pure tracking are removed. Search queries, timestamps, session tokens and anything else the destination might need are left exactly as they were.
Does it remove the "si" parameter from YouTube links?
Yes, on YouTube and Spotify, where si is a share attribution token. It is left alone on other sites, where si may be a meaningful value.
Does it need access to the sites I visit?
No. It requests no host permissions and installs no content script. Nothing runs on a page until you choose the menu item on that page.
Can it copy the address of the page I am reading?
Yes. Right-click anywhere on the page and choose "Copy clean link to this page".
Installing? The four step guide covers it.