Show HN: NoLinkPreview – Share links without triggering previews

I built this simple tool that lets you share links without triggering previews or thumbnails on social and chat platforms.

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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