Contributors & Credits

A transparent source ledger for the privacy research, browser-filter work, and permissive community cleaners that shaped the q1z URL Tracking Parameter Decoder.

Direct Catalog Sources

Permissive or public-domain sources are prioritized for direct inclusion and future expansion.

mpchadwick tracking-query-params-registry

Unlicense

Maintainer: mpchadwick. Structured parameter registry with platform references and visitor-uniqueness notes.

Repository

DrKain tidy-url

MIT

Maintainer: DrKain. Domain-scoped URL cleaning rules with useful legacy and regional parameter coverage.

Repository

doggy8088 TrackingTokenStripper

MIT

Maintainer: Will Huang. Userscript-oriented cleanup rules, especially useful for Microsoft, email, and social legacy tokens.

Repository

dczysz tracking-params

MIT

Maintainer: dczysz. Compact universal and domain-specific parameter list for modern link cleaning.

Repository

newhouse url-tracking-stripper

MIT

Maintainer: Christopher W. Newhouse. Early open-source tracker-stripper examples and regression-style URL cases.

Repository

Research References

These projects are credited as high-authority signals. Their licensing is respected when deciding what to include directly.

ClearURLs Rules

LGPL-3.0

Maintainer: ClearURLs project / Kevin Roebert. Provider-specific cleaning logic and historical rule context.

Repository

Brave adblock-lists

MPL-2.0

Maintainer: Brave Software. Browser-grade query-filter and clean-URL rules used as high-confidence research signals.

Repository

EasyList / EasyPrivacy

Research

Maintainers: Fanboy, MonztA, Khrin, and Yuki2718. Community filter-list taxonomy for tracker families.

Repository

Official ad-platform documentation

Docs

Vendor documentation from Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, Snap, and related platforms helps label ownership and intended use.

Example docs

Source Policy

The project favors legal durability over indiscriminate scraping.

Permissive and public-domain data can be incorporated directly when the source is structured and attributable.
Copyleft browser lists and community filter projects are honored as research references unless the downstream license obligations are intentionally adopted.
Forum posts, Reddit comments, and private OSINT snippets are not copied into the catalog without a clear license and source trail.
Deprecated parameters stay labeled as Legacy so old URLs remain explainable without misrepresenting current platform behavior.