• New setting to customize the Link Unshortener default User-Agent for HTTP requests • New search field in Trackers Settings • Tooltips for the popup menu items in Web Rules Settings to show the bundle identifiers of the apps • Added MSN cvid and ocid URL query parameters to the list of known trackers • Handle Smartbrief newsletter redirects • Detect DataDome CAPTCHAs • New debug window in the Help menu that shows the HTTP requests and responses • Link Unshortener now requires macOS 14 or later

• The shift key now manually excludes the URL from unshortening. This is useful when opening links that would otherwise redirect to a login form, because Link Unshortener does not use cookies or other website data. • Added wt_mc to the list of known tracking parameters automatically removed. • Updated the fake User-Agent used by Link Unshortener for privacy.

Fixed a minor group container migration bug introduced in version 19.8

• Remove the rcm tracking parameter from LinkedIn URLs • Migrate Link Unshortener settings from the app container to a group container • No longer migrate Redirects and Web Rules from the old non-Pro StopTheMadness

• Fixed Substack redirects • Added dib, dib_tag and sr to the known tracking parameters removed from Amazon URLs

• Copy the unshortenened URL to the clipboard: Fixed a bug where the original URL was copied rather than the destination URL • Trim URL queries: Trim the "ueid" parameter from YouTube URLs

• Bypass Bing tracking URLs • Fixed an issue with escaping invalid characters in Facebook redirects • Fixed an issue where Notion URLs could redirect to a JavaScript disabled page

• Skip bit.ly HTML preview pages that started appearing before redirecting to the destination • Added igsh (Instagram share) to the list of known tracking parameters trimmed from URLs • Fixed Google Forms redirects

• Fixed a bug introduced in version 19.2 where a custom User-Agent was no longer used • Fixed HTTP 403 Forbidden errors with nytimes.com • Added gaa_ URL parameters (Google Analytics) to the list of known trackers removed automatically

• Redirect rules: Allow a JavaScript function enclosed in {} as the replacement. • Redirect rules: Fixed a potential loop with same-site non-regex redirects. • Added dsclid (DerbySoft) and WT.mc_id (WebTrends) to the list of known tracking parameters. • Bypass ad.doubleclick.net, squarespace-mail.com, gopjn.com, and pepperjamnetwork.com redirects. • Fixed HTTP 403 Forbidden errors with ad.doubleclick.net and dealmoon.com links. • Fixed HTTP 202 Accepted errors. • New blank windows no longer autofill URLs from the clipboard.

Fixed link-unshortener: URLs on macOS 15.4

• New setting: Open URL in the background when Link Unshortener is in the background. • Experimental support for using a SOCKS proxy with Link Unshortener. See the online help for configuration instructions.

• New setting: Close the window after copying a URL • URL exclusions can be specified without a scheme to automatically match subdomains • Improved handling of non-US Google links • search.app URLs shared from Android are bypassed • Added _bhlid (beehiiv link id) to the list of known trackers

Enabled AppleScript

Fixed a bug introduced in version 17.0 where disabling the setting "Close the window after opening a URL" didn't work.

• New keyboard shortcut: control-command-o to open URLs from all Link Unshortener windows • Trackers: Match subdomains by using . at the start or end of the URL domain • Trackers: Remove some Amazon tracking parameters • Automatically detect Cloudflare challenges • Fixed an issue with Base64 decoding of link.arstechnica.com URLs • Fixed an issue with import of StopTheMadness Pro settings • Prevent a URL from opening more than once if you continue to hold down the keyboard shortcut while the window is closing

• Added the custom URL scheme link-unshortener: to open a URL in Link Unshortener. • Trackers: A tracker rule whose URL domain and query parameter are both blank will have no effect. Previously, the rule removed every parameter on every domain.

• The table columns in the Trackers settings can now be sorted. • Fixed ampersand escaping in meta http-equiv refresh redirects.

• Added an Import tab to the Settings window that allows you to import settings from an exported file, from StopTheMadness, or from StopTheMadness Pro • Open URL in the background: Worked around a macOS issue where the background window could still appear in front after closing one Link Unshortener window and opening a URL from another • Extract the destination URL from https://link.arstechnica.com/click/ links • Set the HTTP "Accept" header to match the web browser default, to get better redirect results in a few cases • Trackers: Clarified in the instructions that the URL domain must match the website domain exactly • Web Rules: Clarified in the instructions not to use the * character at the end of the URL

• Customize the known tracking parameters removed from URL queries! Add your own parameters to the list, and configure per-site removal. • Redirects and Web Rules are independent from StopTheMadness settings. • Web Rules can override the auto-open setting. • Link Unshortener now requires macOS 12 Monterey or later.

• Redirects: Allow redirect rules to open non-https URLs • URL Exclusions: Handle URL ports, queries, and hashs • URL Exclusions: Prevent duplicates from getting saved in the list • URL Exclusions: Fixed the row height to center the text vertically • HTTP 302 Found no longer shows an error

• Added mtm_ (Matomo Analytics) to the list of Known Trackers • Remove s= queries from x.com URLs • Fixed a bug where the URL query was removed from Twitter /search and /i/redirect URLs • Fixed App Store receipt validation in the rare case of a damaged system with a missing primary ethernet interface

• The fake User-Agent used by Link Unshortener has been changed from Windows to Mac, because a specific combination of HTTP headers was triggering a few sites to return HTTP 403 Forbidden. • Trim URL queries now removes "rtd" from Reddit URLs. • Trim URL queries no longer removes "cid" from URL parameters, because that broke https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid= links.

• Include some known tracking parameters from https://privacytests.org/ • Remove the URL query from www.tiktok.com links • No longer removes the URL query from platform.twitter.com URLs, which broke https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id= links • Fixed a HTTP 403 Forbidden error with some www.nytimes.com links

New preference: Remove text fragments in URLs Text fragments appear as #:~:text= at the end of URLs and cause automatic text highlighting on the page.