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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
Firefox on Android: No
Size: 10.26K
Full description: See detailed description
Ranking
Other platforms
Not available on Chrome
Not available on Android
Not available on Edge
User reviews
by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 2025-03-16
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
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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