Show HN: PasteClean – Desktop app to strip tracking parameters from clipboard

Published: (December 15, 2025 at 08:13 PM EST)
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Source: Hacker News

Overview

I built a small desktop tool called PasteClean to solve a personal annoyance: sharing URLs filled with tracking garbage (utm_source, fbclid, etc.).
It runs in the background and automatically cleans URLs in your clipboard when you copy them. It handles 50+ tracking parameters and can also unshorten

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