Clean / minimize large URLs by stripping tracking info
Cleans and minimizes urls for prettier sharing in text chats and some tracker stripping (when shared)
The script was initially made by a user in #reprap on freenode IRC for AliExpress, but I sadly have forgotten by who :(
After almost loosing this userscript >10 times, to find it on weird nas drives or old computers, I decided to rewrite it entirely from scratch and share it on my github / greasyfork
The script now supports multiple sites, likely to have more added in the future.
The script will take a url like
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32322326979.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.5e2e3f351UcucB&algo_pvid=9ac0e00d-f02c-4d7b-8acd-03d1455be4da&algo_expid=9ac0e00d-f02c-4d7b-8acd-03d1455be4da-1&btsid=0bb0623e16061356267071699ec21e&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_
and clean it to
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32322326979.html
While it'd be nice to also clean up localization like country specific sub-domains, this can't be done in javascript as it represents a CORS attack risk. It coud be done with redirects, and I'll happily look at a PR if anyone is up for that :)