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't find a tool that did that. So I built one.
Created with CloudFlare Workers and Pages, it basically appends your URL to https://nolinkpreview.com (so it doesn't cloak or obfuscate the destination).
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're immediately redirected to the original URL.
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.
Would love any feedback, critique or edge cases you think I should handle.
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