Preview Short URLs

Stop short URL abuse by previewing the URL automatically before visiting it.

What is Preview Short URLs?

Preview Short URLs is a Chrome extension that shows a preview page displaying the destination URL whenever you visit a shortened URL. It supports popular URL shorteners like bit.ly, bitly.com, tinyurl.com, is.gd, and goo.gl. It helps prevent short URL abuse and provides transparency and security while browsing the web.

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By: azelphur

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Users: 342 ▼ -14

Rating: 3.71 (7)

Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2013-11-18)

Creation date: 2013-11-18

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
*://bit.ly/*
*://bitly.com/*
*://tinyurl.com/*
*://is.gd/*
*://goo.gl/*

Size: 11.60K

URLs: Website

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 42739 ▼ 647

Other rankings

#4794 in Accessibility ▲ 4 #76 in preview keyword 20 ▼ 2 #102 in url shortener keyword 49 ▼ 10

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Summary

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This addon will show you a preview page clearly displaying the destination URL whenever you visit a shortened URL.

Currently supports: bit.ly bitly.com tinyurl.com is.gd goo.gl

Want support for more? Feel free to suggest something. :)

Want to help out? This code is on github https://github.com/Azelphur/Preview-Short-URLs patches welcome!

Feel free to drop by irc://irc.azelphur.com/#azelphur if you have any questions.

User reviews

Perfect extension, just needs some updating. I might make a pull request on github sometime. This extension is different from the others on how it gets the destination url, it catches the redirect and shows you a preview of the actual url before navigating there.

Mason Kuan, 2020-11-23

No longer functional

enam ym, 2015-05-08

this is absolutely perfect if you receive such links from irc, game clients, and instant message clients

Jordan W, 2014-01-13

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Safety

Risk impact

Preview Short URLs may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.