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Unknown or expired link. This should be fixed.
by bayareaguy 17y ago
Unknown or expired link.
This should be fixed.
- megamark16 17y agoI was going to say that there are several Firefox plugins to check links on the page for you, but the ones that I took a cursory glance at look like they could really slow down your browsing, or automatically "click" on links (like Delete or Upvote/Downvote) that you really don't want them to click. So I see now that this problem is indeed a little more complicated then that. What we really need is a plugin that makes a quick query to a central service every time you hit a page and checks to see if anyone else has "reported" bad links on that page, and if they have it will highlight them or cross them out for you. Or it could send a list of all of the links on a page to the server and check them against the servers bad links list. Other than that it will let you do your own thing until you hit a bad link on a page, at which time it will look back at your history and see what page the bad link exists on and "report" that bad link/page to the central server so that any other user that hits that page will know before they click that that particular link is bad. There would be, of course, numerous privacy concerns, but I think that if a company was willing to really "do no evil" and could garner enough user support to make it effective this could turn out to be really helpful. Thoughts?
- sp332 17y agoThere's "Resurrect Pages" for Firefox, which has buttons for Google cache (for recently dead pages) and archive.org (for longer-dead pages). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570
- bemmu 17y agoI think he means the situation where if you are browsing HN, then take a trip to Mars and after you continue clicking, the links no longer work.