Nov. 29, 2025
What I Learned When sharing URLs with others, query parameters and fragments can make URLs long and include unnecessary information. I used to manually delete them, but by combining a bookmarklet with Chrome’s search engine feature, I can now clean URLs using only keyboard shortcuts.
Details Background While browsing the web, URLs often have parameters like ?utm_source=... or #section. There are many situations where you want to remove these and have a simple URL, but manually deleting them is tedious.