DirectLinks

Makes indirect links on Google and Facebook direct.

What is DirectLinks?

DirectLinks is a Chrome extension that disables JavaScript techniques used by Google and Facebook to track link clicks, allowing you to go straight to the destination when clicking search results or links in Facebook posts.

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Extension stats

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Users: 166 ▼ -11

Rating: 5.00 (2)

Version: 2.0 (Last updated: 2018-09-12)

Creation date: 2018-09-12

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 232.45K

Ranking

# 60759 ▼ 1552

Other rankings

#8290 in Developer Tools ▼ 75 #70 in destination keyword 3 ▲ 9

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Extension summary

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This extension circumvents certain techniques used by Google and Facebook to track link clicks.

When you click a link in Google search results, Google uses JavaScript to replace the actual link with an indirect one, which they use for click tracking. Google then redirects the browser to the actual destination after logging the click. DirectLinks disables the JavaScript that replaces real links with indirect ones, so that when you click a search result link, Safari goes straight to the destination.

The extension does something similar for links in Facebook posts: it removes JavaScript that Facebook uses to track clicks on these links.