diff --git a/files/helpers/sanitize.py b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
index a19637df0..65be0a660 100644
--- a/files/helpers/sanitize.py
+++ b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ from json import loads, dump
 from random import random, choice
 import signal
 import time
-from urllib.parse import ParseResult, urlunparse, urlparse
-
 
 allowed_tags = tags = ['b',
 						'blockquote',
@@ -117,13 +115,7 @@ def sanitize(sanitized, noimages=False, alert=False, comment=False, edit=False):
 
 	sanitized = strikethrough_regex.sub(r'<del>\1</del>', sanitized)
 
-	sanitized = sanitized.replace("\ufeff", "").replace("𒐪","").replace("<script","").replace("script>","").replace('‎','').replace("https://youtu.be/", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=").replace("https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=").replace("https://streamable.com/", "https://streamable.com/e/").replace("https://youtube.com/shorts/", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=").replace("https://mobile.twitter", "https://twitter").replace("https://m.facebook", "https://facebook").replace("m.wikipedia.org", "wikipedia.org").replace("https://m.youtube", "https://youtube").replace("https://www.youtube", "https://youtube").replace("old.reddit.com/gallery", "reddit.com/gallery")
-
-	if "https://youtube.com/watch?v=" in sanitized: sanitized = sanitized.replace("?t=", "&t=")
-
-	for rd in ["://reddit.com", "://new.reddit.com", "://www.reddit.com", "://redd.it", "://libredd.it"]:
-		sanitized = sanitized.replace(rd, "://old.reddit.com")
-
+	sanitized = sanitized.replace("\ufeff", "").replace("𒐪","").replace("<script","").replace("script>","").replace('‎','')
 
 	if alert:
 		captured = []
@@ -203,32 +195,6 @@ def sanitize(sanitized, noimages=False, alert=False, comment=False, edit=False):
 				except: tag.string = ""
 
 
-			parsed_url = urlparse(tag.get("href"))
-
-			domain = parsed_url.netloc
-			if domain == 'old.reddit.com':
-				new_url = ParseResult(scheme="https",
-						netloc=parsed_url.netloc,
-						path=parsed_url.path,
-						params=parsed_url.params,
-						query=None,
-						fragment=parsed_url.fragment)
-			else:
-				qd = parse_qs(parsed_url.query)
-				filtered = {k: val for k, val in qd.items() if not k.startswith('utm_') and not k.startswith('ref_')}
-
-				new_url = ParseResult(scheme="https",
-									netloc=parsed_url.netloc,
-									path=parsed_url.path,
-									params=parsed_url.params,
-									query=urlencode(filtered, doseq=True),
-									fragment=parsed_url.fragment)
-			
-			
-			new_url = urlunparse(new_url)
-			if tag.string == tag["href"]: tag.string = new_url
-			tag["href"] = new_url
-
 
 	sanitized = str(soup)
 	
@@ -310,6 +276,10 @@ def sanitize(sanitized, noimages=False, alert=False, comment=False, edit=False):
 				sanitized = re.sub(f'(?<!"):{i.group(1).lower()}:', f'<img loading="lazy" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" alt=":{old}:" title=":{old}:" class="{classes}" src="/e/{emoji}.webp">', sanitized, flags=re.I|re.A)
 				if comment: marseys_used.add(emoji)
 
+	sanitized = sanitized.replace("https://youtu.be/", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=").replace("https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=").replace("https://streamable.com/", "https://streamable.com/e/").replace("https://youtube.com/shorts/", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=").replace("https://mobile.twitter", "https://twitter").replace("https://m.facebook", "https://facebook").replace("m.wikipedia.org", "wikipedia.org").replace("https://m.youtube", "https://youtube").replace("https://www.youtube", "https://youtube")
+
+	if "https://youtube.com/watch?v=" in sanitized: sanitized = sanitized.replace("?t=", "&t=")
+
 	captured = []
 	for i in youtube_regex.finditer(sanitized):
 		if i.group(0) in captured: continue
@@ -329,6 +299,11 @@ def sanitize(sanitized, noimages=False, alert=False, comment=False, edit=False):
 
 		sanitized = sanitized.replace(replacing, htmlsource)
 
+	for rd in ["://reddit.com", "://new.reddit.com", "://www.reddit.com", "://redd.it", "://libredd.it"]:
+		sanitized = sanitized.replace(rd, "://old.reddit.com")
+
+	sanitized = sanitized.replace("old.reddit.com/gallery", "reddit.com/gallery")
+
 
 	sanitized = unlinked_regex.sub(r'\1<a href="\2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">\2</a>', sanitized)