This repository hosts the source code for a simple Android app to remove trackers from Reddit share URLs.
Soon after its brutal and sudden crackdown on 3rd party apps in June of 2023, Reddit's official android app started sharing comment and post links in a rather unorthodox format that obscures the actual comment and post IDs behind a unique, per-share tracking ID that allows reddit to know exactly who you send a given link to.
In the process these links also break many older, but still functional, 3rd party clients that are not equipped to handle these new obscured links.
This app accepts obscure reddit share links and emits clean links that contain no trackers and are supported by most 3rd party clients, regardless of age.
Obscured reddit links follow the format:
https://www.reddit.com/r/<subreddit>/s/<share-id>
Whereas conventional links look something like the following:
https://www.reddit.com/r/<subreddit>/comments/<comment-id>
You can easily indentify tracking links by the /s/ after the subreddit name.