Firefox has a neat feature in the context menu for a link. It's called 'Copy Clean Link' and it removes a buncha tracking shit.

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@EveHasWords Nice feature, that. (I wonder if it correctly identifies URLs where the ?query is actually critical to identifying the correct page, and not just tracking data... fortunately a rare thing these days, but I do come across them now and again.)
@woozle I haven't had a chance to test it widely. I ended up discovering it as I was saving some Youtube links for later. It was really good with Youtube links despite the chaos going on there but I couldn't swear to how good it would be in other cases.
@EveHasWords YT has always been pretty consistent with its base links, in my experience