On: What's in email tracking links and pixels?

[ivanche]

There is a Firefox extension that clears URL named, appropriately, ClearURLs :)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearurls/

[lordgrenville → ivanche]

So this is nice but doesn't do what I'm looking for, which is: given an email with links like OP's (https://www.google.com/...), go over it, follow each link to its final redirect and then replace the href with that (in this case, https://www.slashgear.com/...), letting me (for example) preview the links on mouse-over before clicking.

I thought it might be possible to build something like this with curl -Ls -w %{url_effective}, but seems like it only handles HTTP 302 redirects, whereas this site seems to be using Javascript, so you probably need a real crawler.

[beagle3 → lordgrenville]

But do note that if such a thing existed, the actual resolution leaks information about your actions (the fact you are reading it / hovering, etc)

[londons_explore → beagle3]

Not if it's done by the mail server in receipt of any email, even spam.

[withinboredom → ivanche]

In my experience, it breaks any links with url encoded data in it (like links that redirect you to a login page, or contain an encoded hash)