LinkCleanHow to clean a YouTube share link
YouTube share links carry a si= tracking parameter. Strip it before forwarding, but keep t= so the video still starts at the timestamp you wanted.
YouTube's share dialog gives you a link that looks like https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=AbCdEf12345 (or a longer youtube.com URL with the same si=). That si parameter is a “share identifier” YouTube uses to credit the share and link the click back to whoever pressed Share.
If the video has a start-at-N-seconds timestamp, you'll also see &t=42 (or just ?t=42 on its own). Critically, t= is functional — strip it and the video starts from the beginning, which is usually not what you wanted.
Use the share sheet, not the YouTube share button
From the YouTube app, copy the link normally (or use the system share-sheet → LinkClean's Clean URL action). LinkClean strips si= and leaves t= intact. The cleaned link starts at the same timestamp, with no share token attached.
Or paste into the LinkClean app
Paste the YouTube URL. You'll see si= called out as “stripped” and t= preserved. Copy the result back.
Verify the timestamp survived
Open the cleaned link in a private tab. If you had a timestamp, the video should jump there. If it didn't, you can tell at a glance — and if it's wrong, the original is one undo away.
Why this is harder than it sounds
A naive cleaner that strips every parameter would also strip t= and break the timestamp. LinkClean's catalog scopes the YouTube cleaning rules to youtube.com / youtu.be hosts, so a parameter called si= on a different site (where it might be functional) is left alone, and t= is preserved everywhere.
If you've used a URL shortener to share a YouTube video and the shortener added its own parameters, paste the short link into LinkClean. It'll expand and clean in one step (E1 redirect unwrapping — short-link domains like t.co and bit.ly are followed locally, then the destination URL gets the same treatment).
Skip the steps — LinkClean does it.
LinkClean strips tracking parameters from any link in one tap, from any app's share sheet. No account, on-device.
