# Slack Direct

> Rewrite links within Slack to avoid slack-redir.net --- Tired of links posted to Slack being redirected through slack-redir.net? This extension rewrites the links to go where they intend to, instead of through Slack's redirector. That's it.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/slack\_direct](https://chrome-stats.com/d/slack_direct)

## Overview

- **ID:** `slack_direct`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** chutten
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 27
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.4
- **Last updated:** 2019-08-01
- **First published:** 2018-04-11
- **Size:** 9.84 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/slack_direct/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/chutten/slack-direct](https://github.com/chutten/slack-direct)

## Description

Slack Direct is a Firefox add-on that rewrites links within Slack to ensure they go directly to the intended destination without going through the Slack's redirector service, slack-redir.net.

## Rankings

- #21,418 — Overall
- #90 — direct link
- #196 — redirect

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `*.slack.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/slack_direct)