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Show HN: NoLinkPreview - Share links without triggering previews

2 pointsby santahabout 1 month ago
I built this simple tool that lets you share links without triggering previews or thumbnails on social and chat platforms.<p>I often wanted to share a link without drawing attention, breaking the layout of a conversation or leaking content (coughRickRollcough) through preview crawlers - but I couldn&#x27;t find a tool that did that. So I built one.<p>Created with CloudFlare Workers and Pages, it basically appends your URL to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nolinkpreview.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nolinkpreview.com</a> (so it doesn&#x27;t cloak or obfuscate the destination).<p>When bots or crawlers follow the link, they receive a plain response with no metadata, thumbnails, or Open Graph tags - nothing to preview. When a user clicks the link, they&#x27;re immediately redirected to the original URL.<p>There are no ads, tracking, logging or storage of any kind for the generated links or traffic. There is a single Cloudflare Web Analytics snippet on the homepage - just so I can tell if anyone is using the tool at all.<p>Would love any feedback, critique or edge cases you think I should handle.

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