Skip Redirect
What is Skip Redirect?
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Skip Redirect
Some web pages use intermediary pages before redirecting to a final page. This webextension tries to extract the final url from the intermediary url and goes there straight away if successful. As an example, try this url:
Please give feedback(see below) if you find websites where this fails or where you get redirected in a weird way when this add-on is enabled but not when it's disabled.
See the add-on's preferences (also available by clicking the toolbar icon) for options.
By default all URLs but the ones matching a no-skip-urls-list are checked for embedded URLs and redirects are skipped. Depending on the pages visited, this can cause problems. For example a dysfunctional login. The no-skip-urls-list can be edited to avoid these problems. There is also a skip-urls-list mode to avoid this kind of problem altogether. In skip-urls-list mode, all URLs for which redirects should be skipped need to be added to the skip-urls-list manually.
Some websites use multiple url parameters like this:
www.example.com/page-we-want-to-skip?first=www.want-to-go-here.com&second=www.do-not-care-about-this-url.com
User reviews
- Works well for bypassing certain links
- Easy to use in many situations
- Great for protecting links and avoiding redirection
- Useful for bypassing tracking links
- Struggles with certain URLs, especially encoded ones
- Does not work consistently across all sites
- Can interfere with other extensions like reverse image search
- Users have reported it causing issues with YouTube
- Works well
- Not user friendly to configure
- Is inconsistent with certain links
- Useful for bypassing tracking links
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Skip Redirect is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Skip Redirect if you trust the publisher.
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Skip Redirect has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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