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Can anyone explain how it works? Do I have to paste the link into the app and it opens Safari for me? A single screenshot of the app in action in their ReadMe could clear this up. I don’t understand why so many GitHub projects have this problem.


It seems to observe the OS pasteboard. Every time you copy a string, it reads the value, removes tracking parameters, and then puts the clean string back into your pasteboard.

So no action required on the user side, it’s all automatic.


I think it just listens to changes in your clipboard and if it detects you having copied a link, it removes all tracking parameters and enters that to your clipboard instead.




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