Safer Redirects

This extension displays the url to which the redirect would have occured. Choice wisely if you want to proceed.

Safer Redirects - Protect Your Browsing

Safer Redirects is a Chrome extension created to protect users from threats like XSS or CSRF through an URL shortener service. It prompts users with the target URL before redirects, empowering them to choose whether to proceed or cancel.

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By: Michael Brodmann

Users: 132

Rating: 3.43

(7)

Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2016-07-04)

Creation date: 2016-07-04

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
storage
<all_urls>

Size: 10.16K

Email: mb*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 65,758 ▲ 837

Other rankings

#5518 in Accessibility ▲ 17 #77 in redirect keyword 53 ▲ 4 #224 in url shortener keyword 40 ▲ 3

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Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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This extension was created to mitigate threats like XSS or CSRF using an url shortener service. This extension will prompt you with the target url of the shortened url before the redirect occurs. You then can choice if you want to proceed or cancel the redirect.

User reviews

Automatically closes the page if I choose not to go there. Also stopped me from accessing Microsoft's forum websites. DIdn't even allow me to access them. Removed.