dessant / dessant/web-archives

Optional (But Default On) Tracker URL Removal So That Searches Don't as Easily Fail

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**

It was a judgment call whether to file this as a bug or a feature request, but I think it's much the latter. When a site has Google Analytics tracking as part of its URL (the ubiquitous "utm_source" and "utm_medium" and "utm_campaign", it will usually fail when it is piped over to archive.today (archive.is, archive.ph, etc.) -- and with some other trackers, as well, I suspect (but don't know for sure).

**Describe the solution you'd like**

It would be useful if by default Web Archives stripped trackers out of the URL being looked up on archives, with perhaps a setting to disable that entirely, or disable it per lookup.

**Describe alternatives you've considered**

I presently hand-remove the trackers and rerun the request. It works; it's just an annoyance. :) I've also brought it up with archive.today, but it seems to have fallen into their bit bucket of "maybe someday".

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