Clean LinksFacebook wraps every outbound click in `l.facebook.com/l.php?u=...` and tags the share with `fbclid` — a per-click ID Meta matches against the Facebook Pixel on the destination site to rebuild who clicked what. Shares from the Meta app add `mibextid` and `rdid` on top. Clean the Facebook link before you paste.
Examples of Trackers and Redirects Clean Links Handles
Facebook routes outbound links through its own redirect to log which post, ad, or surface produced the click, then adds `fbclid` so the destination site's Facebook Pixel can tie the visit to the original Facebook session. Shares from Meta apps add `mibextid` and `rdid` to record where the share happened inside Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger.
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Facebook links often start inside `l.facebook.com/l.php?u=...`, where the real URL is encoded inside `u=`. Deleting the wrong parameter breaks the link. Clean Links reads `u=`, unwraps the redirect, drops `fbclid` and `mibextid`, and shows the real destination.
No. Clean Links reads the destination from inside the `l.facebook.com` wrapper, removes the Facebook IDs, and shows the real URL.
Facebook Click Identifier — a per-click ID Facebook adds when you open a link from Facebook or Instagram. It lets Meta's Pixel tie your visit on the destination site back to the Facebook session that sent you.
A share-source identifier Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger add when you share a link from inside a Meta app. It records which app and surface produced the share.
`l.facebook.com` is Meta's outbound redirect layer. The `/l.php?u=` path forwards you to the real URL in `u=` while logging the click. Clean Links reads `u=` directly and skips the logging hop.
`fb.me` is Facebook's own short link domain and it only forwards to Facebook-owned URLs. It is not malicious, but it does add a tracked redirect. Clean Links expands it so you see the real destination before you tap.
Cleaning a link before you share it means visitors arrive without `fbclid`, so the Pixel cannot tie that click back to the Facebook session. That is the point when you are sharing on someone else's behalf.
The Apple app cleans Facebook links on-device. The web cleaner currently sends the link to the Clean Links API because the full rule engine is too large to ship to every browser right now. We do not log, store, or tie those requests to an account, and shortlinks are still resolved in an isolated, cookie-free context with a randomized user agent.
The cleaning rules are the same, but the Apple app has more system hooks: Share Sheet cleaning, Safari extension support, QR scanning, Shortcuts, Siri, and Mac clipboard tools. The web cleaner focuses on paste-and-clean in your browser today, and a browser-native WASM version is in progress.
One-tap cleaning from the iOS share sheet on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Works offline, no account, no logs.