# Direct Links

> Skip past known redirection links and go directly to the target website. Dodge tracking and speed up browsing.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/direct-links](https://chrome-stats.com/d/direct-links)

## Overview

- **ID:** `direct-links`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Firefox user 13910912
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 23
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 2.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-03-30
- **Size:** 16 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/direct-links/)

## Description

Direct Links is a Firefox add-on that enables users to bypass known redirection links and directly access the target website. This add-on helps to avoid tracking and enhances browsing speed. It provides configurable redirects, shortcutting common DuckDuckGo bangs, and default support for various popular redirects and avoiding the hosted AMP cache.

## Rankings

- #23,016 — Overall
- #47 — direct link
- #77 — links
- #85 — target
- #122 — broken links
- #172 — redirect

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/direct-links)