Linkrinse Lite by PN Scripts

A free Manifest V3 extension for Firefox and Chrome that removes tracking parameters (utm_*, fbclid, gclid, mc_eid, igshid and 33 more) from the links you click and from the address bar. It works offline, asks only for the storage permission and sends nothing anywhere.

The rules engine is also an npm package, @pnscripts/linkrinse-lite, for cleaning URLs in Node or in your own scripts.

What it does

• Clean on click. Just before a left or middle click follows a link, its address is rewritten without tracking parameters, so they never reach the next site.
• Clean address bar. When a page opens with tracking parameters, the address is replaced with history.replaceState (no reload), so what you copy or bookmark is clean.
• 38 built-in rules. Campaign tags (utm_*), ad click identifiers (fbclid, gclid, msclkid, ttclid …), e-mail platform tags (mc_eid, _hsenc, mkt_tok …), share ids (igshid, igsh) and five site-scoped rules (si on YouTube and Spotify, ref_src on X, smid on nytimes.com, spm on AliExpress). The popup lists them all.
• Pause on this site. One click in the popup stops Linkrinse Lite on the site you are on (and its subdomains); everywhere else it keeps cleaning.
• Careful by design. Only the listed tracking parameters are removed. Sign-in, search, sorting and app parameters are never touched; tests check Google and Microsoft sign-in, GitHub OAuth, Google Search, Amazon review sorting, Reddit search, Gmail, Twitch and YouTube addresses stay exactly as they are (the pages aggressive cleaners are known to break).
• Two switches, a pause and a counter in the popup. That is the whole interface.

Lite is complete for what it does and never asks for payment. The full edition, Linkrinse, adds editable rules, redirect-page skipping, a link tester and "Copy clean link"; see https://pnscripts.com/marketplace/browser-linkrinse.

Install

• Firefox (desktop and Android): addons.mozilla.org (in review), or load dist/linkrinse-lite-firefox-1.1.0.zip from about:debugging.
• Chrome and Edge: Chrome Web Store (coming soon), or "Load unpacked" with dist/chrome from chrome://extensions in Developer mode.

npm

const { cleanUrl } = require('@pnscripts/linkrinse-lite');
cleanUrl('https://shop.example/p?utm_source=news&color=red&fbclid=x');
// { url: 'https://shop.example/p?color=red', changed: true, removed: ['utm_source', 'fbclid'], skipped: null }

cleanUrl(url) returns the input unchanged (changed: false) when there is nothing to remove, and skipped: 'invalid' | 'not-http' for input it does not touch. TypeScript types are included.

Develop

npm test            # unit and packaging tests (node --test)
node tools/e2e-chrome.mjs    # real Chrome: cleaning, counter, popup pause (PN_PLAYWRIGHT=…/playwright-core)
node tools/e2e-firefox.mjs   # real Firefox via web-ext (WEB_EXT=…/web-ext)
npm run build       # dist/chrome, dist/firefox, both zips and the npm tarball
npm run images      # store images at exact sizes into listing/

No dependencies. Nothing is minified or generated, so AMO needs no separate source package.

Privacy

No network requests, no analytics, no remote code. Settings and the counter stay in the browser's local extension storage. Firefox manifest: data_collection_permissions.required = ["none"].

Licence

MIT. Copyright (c) 2026 ПН СКРИПТС ЕООД (PN Scripts).