search-params-remover

This is a browser extension helps you surf without fbclid, UTM parameters, and parameters you specify. Not only search params (with "?" preceding) is removed, but also substrings with format key=value in hash (with "#" preceding) would be removed.

Examples (requirements)

• example.com/path?a=3&fbclid=xxx&b=4&b=5 => example.com/path?a=3&b=4&b=5
• example.com/path#utm_term=condom&comments => example.com/path#comments
• example.com/path?fbclid=xxx#utm_term=condom => example.com/path

note: example.com is a valid website. After installing the extension, you can click the above links to check if the results fit.

Versions

v0.2.x is based for Chrome-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge. Firefox users may install v0.1 instead (due to manifest version issue), without modifying hash function.

Development notes

• I suggest only reloading rules by listening to StorageArea.onChanged; otherwise codes would be confusing.
• Firefox has not decided how to do with Manifest V3.
• declarativeNetRequest seems not having ways for hash to do things such as what QueryTransform does; and a question mark is still remained in href even though all params are removed and search is empty. These issues are handled in content.js. (regexSubstitution may work but I don't wanna try yet.)