MUGA: Clean URLs, Fair to Every Click yocreoquesi מאת

MUGA turns the noise down on every URL, without taking credit from the creators who recommended you.

Every other URL cleaner removes utm_source, fbclid, gclid, and the rest. So does MUGA. But every other URL cleaner also strips the affiliate tag of the YouTuber whose video you came from, the newsletter that shared the link, the reviewer who took the time to write the comparison. That tag is how independent creators get paid for the recommendation. MUGA leaves it alone — we don't take credit from people who earned it.

When MUGA preserves a creator's referral on the current page, the popup tells you so: a green badge appears with the tag that was kept. No other URL cleaner does this. None of them can without contradicting their own pitch.

One example, the whole pitch:

Before: amazon.es/dp/B00EXAMPLE?tag=reviewer-21&linkCode=ll1&pd_rd_r=xyz&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video

After: amazon.es/dp/B00EXAMPLE?tag=reviewer-21

The reviewer's affiliate tag stays. The tracking params are gone. The creator gets paid. The tracking platforms get nothing.

450+ noise patterns. 150+ domain-specific rulesets. No analytics, no telemetry.

MUGA removes tracking from every site on the web. Domain-specific rules ensure functional parameters (search queries, pagination, filters) are always preserved. We only remove tracking. We never break a page.

What gets stripped:
. UTM family (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content, utm_term, and more)
. Click IDs: fbclid, gclid, dclid, gbraid, wbraid, msclkid, ttclid, twclid, sclid, sc_channel
. Share and discovery tokens (si, epik, pin_unauth)
. Email marketing (mc_cid, _hsenc, mkt_tok, _mkto_trk, _kx)
. E-commerce session noise (pd_rd_r, pf_rd_p, linkCode, linkId, mkevt, mkcid, mkrid, aff_trace_key, algo_expid, algo_pvid, and 30+ more)
. Generic click IDs and campaign identifiers

More than param stripping

. Visible feedback: when MUGA cleans a URL, the popup shows "MUGA removed N bits of noise". When MUGA preserves a creator's tag, the popup says so. You see the value, every time.
. AMP redirect: AMP pages redirect to the canonical article URL
. Block <a ping> beacons: suppresses background ping requests on click
. Redirect unwrapping: detects and bypasses intermediary redirect wrappers so you land on the real URL
. Right-click any link: "Copy clean link" without visiting the page
. Alt+Shift+C: copy the clean URL of the current tab to clipboard
. Badge counter: see how many params were stripped on the current tab
. Popup preview: before/after view for the current page

Why "fair to creators" is not marketing talk

We evaluated 10+ affiliate programs from major retailers (Zalando, SHEIN, MediaMarkt, Walmart, Target, AliExpress, and others) and rejected every one of them. They all require redirect-based attribution: your click passes through an external server before reaching the store. We refuse to route your clicks through external attribution servers just to earn a commission.

So when MUGA gives credit to a creator, it is to a creator who chose a clean affiliate model that does not redirect or track you. When you enable MUGA's optional affiliate injection, you are doing the same. No redirects. No middlemen. No noise.

MUGA preserves creator affiliate tags on 6 programs (Amazon, eBay, Vercel, DigitalOcean, Lemon Squeezy, Apple Performance Partners). Two of those have a MUGA-owned account active for optional injection: Amazon (ES, DE, FR, IT, UK, US) and eBay (US, ES, DE, UK, FR, IT).

Fair to creators · nice to you · honest about both

By default, MUGA never touches what is not ours. If a link already has a creator's affiliate tag, we leave it alone. A reviewer links to a product with their tag, it stays.

MUGA has an optional affiliate feature (off by default). When enabled: if you navigate to a supported store and the link has no affiliate tag at all, MUGA adds ours. The price you pay is exactly the same. You can turn it off any time, globally or per domain.

Honest about what goes over the wire

By default, MUGA processes URLs locally inside your browser. We don't run analytics, we don't run telemetry, and we have no plans to.
. No analytics, no telemetry, no account, no sign-in
. Core permissions: storage, activeTab, contextMenus, declarativeNetRequest, clipboardWrite
. Optional permission rules.muga.app/: granted only when you enable "Remote rule updates". Used to fetch a signed noise-param payload: a single HTTPS GET check at most once per 7 days, piggybacked on natural browser activity (no chrome.alarms permission). Credentials-omit, no user data transmitted, Ed25519-signed payload verified against a public key shipped with the extension. Off by default. Revocable at any time.
. Optional permission unwrap.muga.app/: granted only when you enable "Privacy Proxy". Resolves opaque redirect URLs server-side. Off by default.

Your rules

. Blacklist a domain: strip everything on that site, no affiliate injection
. Whitelist a tag: protect a specific creator's affiliate link
. Custom tracking params: add your own parameter names to strip
. Strip all third-party affiliates: removes affiliate tags placed by other creators or networks. MUGA's own tag is preserved only when you also have affiliate injection enabled on this device, symmetric with your stated preference.
. Per-domain disable: opt entire domains out of MUGA
. Export/Import settings as JSON
. Languages: English and Spanish (officially maintained), Portuguese and German (community-contributed; missing entries fall back to English). Switchable any time.
. Behavioural preferences sync across your Firefox account. Acceptance of these terms is recorded per device: installing on a new device asks you to read and accept again. See the privacy policy.

Open source. GPL v3. Read every line.

The entire codebase is public on GitHub under the GPL v3 license. Read it. Audit it. Fork it. If anything looks wrong, open an issue. We built MUGA to be the URL cleaner we wanted to use ourselves: transparent, honest, built to last, and fair to the creators who keep the open web running.

https://github.com/yocreoquesi/muga