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 links
- Simple to use and effective
- Useful for bypassing tracking links
- Does not work on all URLs consistently
- Can interfere with other extensions (e.g., YouTube and reverse image search)
- User interface is not user-friendly for configuration
- Works great
- Not effective for some URLs
- Can break functionality of other extensions
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Skip Redirect requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
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Skip Redirect has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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