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Link Processing & Privacy ๐ŸŒ โ€‹

LinkSheet includes powerful tools to clean, resolve, and secure the links you open. Features marked with ๐ŸŒ involve network requests and may affect the speed of the bottom sheet appearance.

Redirect Resolution ๐ŸŒ โ€‹

LinkSheet can "unroll" shortened links and tracking redirects before they reach your browser.

  • Follow Redirects ๐ŸŒ: Automatically follows HTTP redirects.
    • Mode: Run resolution Automatically, or expose a manual Follow redirects button in the bottom sheet.
    • Aggressive: Attempt to follow redirects even on suspicious or complex URL patterns.
    • Local Cache: Caches results locally to speed up future clicks.
    • External Service ๐ŸŒ [Impact: High]: Uses a privacy-preserving API (hosted at supabase.com) to resolve redirects without exposing your IP address to the destination server immediately. This adds a network round-trip and is a Pro feature.
    • Known Trackers Only: Option to only trigger redirect resolution for known tracking domains, preserving battery and data for normal links.
    • Allow darknets / Allow local network: Explicitly permit resolution targets on Tor/onion hosts or on your local network.
    • Skip in browser: Skip resolution when the target is a browser, since browsers follow redirects themselves.

Amp2Html ๐ŸŒ โ€‹

Automatically converts AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) links to their standard, canonical HTML versions.

  • Local Cache: Caches conversions locally.
  • External Service ๐ŸŒ: Perform the conversion via an external service instead of contacting AMP servers directly (a Pro feature).
  • Allow darknets / Allow local network: Explicitly permit targets on Tor/onion hosts or on your local network.
  • Skip in browser: Skip conversion when the target is a browser.

Tracking Protection โ€‹

ClearURLs Integration โ€‹

Uses the ClearURLs rule set to strip tracking parameters (like utm_source, fbclid) from URLs. This is a local operation (fast).

FastForward Integration โ€‹

Uses FastForward rules to bypass link shorteners and intermediate landing pages.

LibRedirect Integration โ€‹

Redirects traffic from popular proprietary platforms to privacy-friendly, open-source frontends.

  • Example: YouTube โ†’ Invidious, Twitter โ†’ Nitter.
  • Ignore button: Optionally add a button to the sheet that re-opens the original, un-redirected link.
  • Custom instances: An experimental feature that lets you add your own frontend instances.

Embed Resolution โ€‹

Rewrites embed mirrors (for example fxtwitter.com) back to the real host, so the link opens in the target app instead of a third-party viewer.

Downloader ๐ŸŒ โ€‹

  • Enable: Adds a "Download" button to the bottom sheet when a URL points to a downloadable file.
  • Mode: Automatically check if a URL has downloadable content, or show a manual Check downloadable button.
  • Use mime type from URL: Checks if the URL ends with a file extension (e.g. .jpg) and uses it for the downloaded file.

Privacy Settings โ€‹

  • LinkSheet Referrer: By default, LinkSheet hides itself as the "referrer" when opening apps. You can optionally expose LinkSheet as the referrer for compatibility.
  • Remote Config ๐ŸŒ: Allow LinkSheet to refresh internal configuration and documentation resources from its configuration server.
  • Telemetry ๐ŸŒ: LinkSheet collects minimal data by default but respects your choice.
    • Levels: Disabled, Minimal, Standard, Exhaustive.
    • Identity: Choose between a Basic and a Full (adds device model and locale) telemetry identity.
    • Reset Identifier: Generate a new anonymous telemetry identifier at any time.