Youtube blind redirect

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Youtube blind redirect - Firefox Add-on

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.

Add-on stats

Manifest V2
By: 0x08
Daily users: 13
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2021-01-03)
Version code: 5158187
Creation date: 2021-01-02
Firefox on Android: No
Size: 10.26K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome
Not available on Android
Not available on Edge

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
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Youtube blind redirect requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
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Risk likelihood

Youtube blind redirect has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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