Link Revealer

See the true URL for all links and improve your security!

What is Link Revealer?

Link Revealer is a Chrome extension designed to improve your online security. It shows the true URL for all links when you hover over them, and provides a colored footer at the bottom of the page to indicate the link's domain. You can also scan links for threats with the built-in virustotal API.

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By: leocompson

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 336 ▲ 5

Rating: 3.00 (4)

Version: 0.1.2 (Last updated: 2022-06-21)

Creation date: 2020-04-19

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus

Host permissions:

https://www.virustotal.com/vtapi/*

Size: 100.66K

Email: le*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 44304 ▲ 122

Other rankings

#13879 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 59 #195 in scan keyword 32 ▼ 1 #217 in links keyword 43 ▲

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Link Revealer (v0.1.2)

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Summary

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Link Revealer extension is designed to improve your online security. When you hover on any link element, the underlying - href - will be displayed as the link's title. Moreover, a colored footer will also be displayed at the bottom of the page showing the link href.

If the domain of the link is similar to the page domain, this color will be BLUE. If the link is third-party the color is GREEN. For a situation where the displayed URL in the link's text-content is different than the underlying href, the footer color will be RED. The toolbar icon color will also be updated according to the above rules.

For any link, if you right-click and select - Scan link for threats, the add-on scans the link with virustotal (https://www.virustotal.com/) JavaScript API. When you first install the add-on, please visit the options page to activate the virus check API. Once the API is activated you can scan 4 links per minute. From toolbar popup, you can also turn the add-on ON or OFF. Moreover, you can hide the page footer if you found it inconvenient. Please note that you can still scan links for threats even if the page footer is hidden.

If you have a feature request or found a bug to report, please fill the bug report form in the add-on's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/link-revealer.html).

User reviews

Don't like how it adds a third party app in the context menu without you knowing and can't use anyway. Uninstalled.

Google User, 2023-01-07

Works well, albeit I've added the VirusTotal API key as per instructions. Leo - saw your point re downloading using extension source. If so have you considered just open sourcing your extension on Github? Then we could contribute with PR requests (for example) allowing users to toggle the bottom bar when it competes with site actions.