this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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We're using a crate a community member created called clearurls to scrub all markdown fields and url type links of tracking params before even inserting them to the DB. It uses the ClearUrls data which is really popular.
It might already work for these links, but I don't know. Someone would need to test it on https://voyager.lemmy.ml/ . If it doesn't, we'd just need to check the clearurls data (I'm fairly positive they've accounted for this already a long time ago), and update the crate.
Okay I tested it and yes, lemmy is already scrubbing these. See, I'm trying to insert an
&si=eaetahright now and it doesn't write it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKu9eEZe88QKinda surprised no one thought to even test this out.
Thank you for all your work and keeping us safe!
No probs o7
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: