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Is there an addon that will retrieve the redirects in a "sandboxed" way and then ask you if you want to visit the original URL? I really dislike when people sh
by eXpl0it3r 9y ago
Is there an addon that will retrieve the redirects in a "sandboxed" way and then ask you if you want to visit the original URL?
I really dislike when people shorten all their URLs just so they can run statistics on them.
- gruez 9y agoyou can't avoid the statistics gathering because you need to contact their server to get the full URL. the best you can do is look for workarounds (goo.gl has a details page if you append .info to the end of a link, not sure whether that gets recorded as a visit). either that, or you have some sort of centralized service that caches short URLs so they only need to be visited once.
- eXpl0it3r 9y agoI don't really mind being tracked, I'm more interested in knowing what site I'm visiting before I actually visit the site. Caching short URLs might be problematic when the short URLs are editable, so you might end up with old URLs that are no longer valid.