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

20 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by Iblockedthem

11 Comments

tonymet

10 hours ago

My hobby is writing iOS Shortcuts while in the restroom and my url cleaner shortcut is my most often used one.

Side note : Shortcuts.app is iOS best feature hands down

Brajeshwar

10 hours ago

How do you deal with the permissions on using Shortcut?

With the new macOS Spotlight improvement and the window management getting better, I thought I will get rid of Rectangle Pro (I use only that custom window resizing) and tried a window Resizer Shortcut. I’ve tried giving it as much freedom as I can but it keeps bumping into more and more gates.

Btw, I think I jumped too early on that Spotlight thing. I remember, I got back to Alfred last week.

dfajgljsldkjag

11 hours ago

Obvious vibe coded slop.

Also includes a nice fake readme on github that says it's open source (it's not) with "instructions" to build it locally with npm (they don't work). https://archive.is/rzwK1

drshajul

3 hours ago

Absolutely right.. this is closed source. Don't know why there is the 'Development' section.

techjamie

8 hours ago

Not sure how much you checked in detail, but to add on, I downloaded it and unpacked the app to check out the source. Would say it definitely looks like AI written code. I partially wonder if Gemini generated it, because it seemingly imports `@google/genai` as a dependency and does nothing with it, and that kinda seems like a Gemini thing to do.

jauntywundrkind

10 hours ago

On Android, I've been using Leon - The URL Cleaner. GPL3 is restrictive but fine here for me. It is a nice Share Target app, so integrates well with Android. And it has an option to copy the URL to the clipboard automatically after cleaned, which is what I want. https://github.com/leon-cleaning-services/leon

I'd love to use a webapp/PWA that has Share Target support, just because. Not sure what is out there.

fragmede

10 hours ago

kinda related, on iOS there's https://routinehub.co/shortcut/16554/ for this.

AnonHP

10 hours ago

Sadly, this site requires a login or registration with an email just to get the shortcut. I guess I may be able to find a similar one that’s just shared by someone on their iCloud storage.

stephenr

10 hours ago

Presumably this also works on macOS.