Clean LinksGoogle Search wraps outbound clicks in `google.com/url?q=` and appends `gclid`, `srsltid`, `ved`, and `usg` to the URL. Ad clicks carry `gclid` for Google Ads conversion tracking. Merchant Center auto-tagging started pasting `srsltid` onto organic product results in 2024, then spilled into the rest of Search. Clean the Google link before you paste.
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Google routes outbound clicks through its own redirect and tags each hop with IDs that tie the result back to the query, session, and surface — Search, Shopping, Ads, Gmail, or Discover. `gclid` proves an ad click converted. `srsltid` does the same job for organic product listings. The IDs stay attached long after you leave Google.
Pin the web cleaner as a progressive web app on Chrome, Edge, and Android, or install the iPhone, iPad, and Mac app for on-device cleaning, Share Sheet actions, Safari extension, QR scanning, and Shortcuts.
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Google stacks several IDs on the same URL and adds new ones like `srsltid` without notice. Manual trimming misses the new parameter and can delete `q=`, the one part of a `google.com/url` link that actually carries the destination. Clean Links reads `q=`, follows the redirect, and cleans the final URL safely.
No. Clean Links reads the destination from `q=` or follows the redirect, removes the Google tokens, and shows the real URL.
Google Click Identifier — a per-click ID Google Ads adds to outbound URLs so advertisers can credit conversions back to the ad. It is not needed to open the page.
Search Result Source Listing ID — added by Google Merchant Center's auto-tagging so merchants can attribute organic product clicks. Google started appending it to regular Search results in 2024. Cleaning it still opens the same page.
Yes. `ved` and `usg` are Google's internal Search session tokens. They do not affect which page loads. Google itself strips them when canonicalizing URLs for sharing.
Cleaning a link you share does not affect ads on your own site. Conversion tracking relies on `gclid` arriving at the site owner's landing page. If you clean your own promo link before sharing, you lose attribution for that share.
The Apple app cleans Google 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.