Youtube blind redirect
Youtube Private Redirect, Don't let google monitors redirects
What is Youtube blind redirect?
Youtube blind redirect is a Firefox add-on that prevents Google from monitoring your redirects on Youtube. It removes unnecessary tracking parameters and only keeps the destination address in the link.
Stats
Stats date:
By:
0x08
Users:
11
Rating:
5.00
(1)
Creation date:
2021-01-02
Weekly download count:
1
Firefox on Android:
No
Manifest version:
2
Size:
10.26K
Risk impact:
Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Other platforms
Not available on Chrome
Not available on Edge
ChromeStats Rank
Summary
Google tracks you everywhere, Links that you see in description contains something like this: "https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.website.com%2Fpage%2F&blabla=bla", This extension will only keep destination address in href.
User reviews
A review is probably not the proper forum for this communication, but as this is your only review, I thought I'd give it a go...
Hey, 0x08 I just tried this addon, and I found a couple of problems. One you already found, and the other, I don't think you found it yet.
First, this did not work for me. Because I happen to write user scripts for myself and wanted this to work, I looked at the js file in the extension.
At first I noticed that the variable waitSecs was set but not used.
While I was looking at this, you updated the addon. Not kidding.
The second problem still remaining is that it fails to find a collection of link elements using the selector "a[href^='/redir']"
using the mozilla reference for selectors, I tried instead to use:
"a[href*='/redir']" - which of course matches all links containing
the substring '/redir' which is what you wanted to do.
I tested this change, and that fixed the issue.
I copied and pasted these into a user script, and tried it. The other change I needed - because it is a user script, it is loaded to late to receive the 'DOMContentLoaded' event, so I had to explicitly trigger it to test it.
by
egoone, 2022-02-04
Safety
Risk impact
Youtube blind redirect may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.
Risk likelihood
Youtube blind redirect has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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