How to clean an Amazon product link
Amazon product URLs carry tag=, ref_, pf_rd_* and search-context parameters like qid, sr, crid and dib. Strip them and keep the product — LinkClean does this with host-scoped rules.
Ken Tominaga · Updated 2026-10-01
Amazon's URLs are some of the longest on the web because their internal tracking is unusually verbose. tag= identifies an affiliate (someone earns a commission when you buy), ref_ records which page sent you (the search results, a category page, a recommendation widget), and pf_rd_* annotates the specific placement (which slot on which page in which experiment cohort).
A link opened from a search results page adds a second layer: qid and sr (the query's id and the rank of the result you clicked), crid and sprefix (the autocomplete session, including what you had typed), and dib with dib_tag (an opaque token for the result slot). Together they restate the search that led you to the product.
None of this is needed to load the product. The canonical product URL is just amazon.com/dp/<ASIN> — that ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) is the only thing the server uses to identify the product.
Copy the product link normally
From the Amazon app or web, hit Share → Copy Link. You'll get a long URL with /ref=… in the path and ?tag=…&ref_=… in the query string.
Run it through LinkClean
Either use the LinkClean share-sheet action (Share → Clean URL) or paste into the app. LinkClean strips tag, ref_, pf_rd_*, pd_rd_* and the search-context set (qid, sr, crid, sprefix, dib, dib_tag) from the query string, and keeps th= and psc= so the link still opens the variant you chose. It cleans the query string only: the product-name words and the /ref=… segment Amazon puts in the path stay as they are. For the shortest form, keep everything up to and including /dp/<ASIN> and delete the rest of the path by hand.
Verify the product still resolves
Open the cleaned link in a private tab. Same product page, no affiliate kicker. The price, reviews, and product details all load identically.
Why host-scoped? Because tag and ref are common functional query keys on other sites (a tag= filter on a blog's archive page, a ref= referer parameter on a forum). LinkClean's catalog limits the aggressive Amazon-cleaning rules to amazon.* hosts (.com, .co.uk, .de, .co.jp, and 14 other storefronts) — on any other site, tag= and ref= stay default-off.
Amazon's amzn.to short links hide all of this behind a redirect. With Expand Short Links on in Settings → Cleaning, LinkClean follows the short link to the product URL and cleans that.
If you keep an affiliate link on purpose (you want to support someone's referral), use LinkClean's app to see the cleaned vs original side-by-side and pick whichever you want before sharing.
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.
