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The Best Ways to Clean Tracking Junk from URLs (2026 Guide)

Pleasant and Thought-Provoking, Productivity / /

If you’ve ever copied a link and noticed it looks like this… https://www.amazon.ca/Enshittification-Everything-Suddenly-Worse-About/dp/0374619328/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._SjOlLplb7Z0Rvscl1ZihXsKv3j5PVjTYExbZMJmZuDtJLCIavbyJiKbtQJUy3Xn0bNemqglamuZWtNQzFB2_Q.x7nWZNgrA7o7I-w9roq4O53Ys4E1Wx9KWxrJHyQb-aY&dib_tag=se&gad_source=1&hvadid=788657704505&hvdev=c&hvexpln=0&hvlocphy=9001509&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=17902577840324087743–&hvqmt=b&hvrand=17902577840324087743&hvtargid=kwd-2078990547242&hydadcr=22430_13682881&keywords=enshittification&mcid=82e56b35149932d7aa07352f600aa68d&qid=1768014783&sr=8-1 …you’ve seen link junk (also called URL cruft)—tracking parameters added by websites, advertisers, and social platforms. These parameters don’t help the reader. They exist to track you. They also: clutter your links break readability make URLs fragile leak information when you share […]

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Demystifying Hookmark’s File links (URL scheme: hook://file/)

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We’ve published a web page that explains Hookmark’s file links ( hook://file/ links). Why this matters Robust file linking isn’t just a technical nicety—it fundamentally changes how you work. When links don’t break, you stop worrying about where files live and start focusing on what they mean and how they relate to each other. That’s

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Hookmark 6.13, Hookmark Pal 1.2 and 1.3, a Webinar, Hookmark 7 and more

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In this blog post we cover Hookmark 6.13, Hookmark Pal 1.2 and 1.3, a sneak preview of Hookmark 7 and upcoming integrations, Artisanal software’s Winterfest vs. Enshittification Our next Office Hours (webinar) Hookmark 6.13 now available

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Developers Lose Time to Lost Context—Hookmark Fixes That

Pleasant and Thought-Provoking, Tips and Tricks / /

I’m always surprised when I learn that a software developer is aware of Hookmark but does not use it. It suggests I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining the value proposition to developers, because surely it is a huge one. I therefore enlisted ChatGPT to help pressure-test the explanation below against real developer

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A Small X Exchange That Explains a Big Idea Behind Hookmark

Hookmark Discussed on the Web, Pleasant and Thought-Provoking / /

Yesterday, Mark Bernstein—the developer of Tinderbox and editor of Winterfest—posted on X about an article by Andy Brice, Is the golden age of Indie software over? After reading it, I replied on X: “@eastgate I’ve hooked this page to the WinterFest page using Hookmark, which also automatically bookmarks both pages in Hookmark — for ease

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Omni-Links: The Missing Link in Most Mac Users’ Digital Workflow

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We live in a world of powerful apps. Our Macs can manage email, notes, documents, tasks, and web research with ease. And yet, somehow, these tools still struggle to talk to each other in meaningful ways. You might have a note that refers to an email, which relates to a file, which connects to a

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Please update ASAP to Hookmark 7.0.2. It works around a Sparkle issue that can cause some Hookmark installations to generate excessive network traffic by checking for updates too frequently.