RequestPolicyContinued / requestpolicy

a web browser extension that gives you control over cross-site requests. Available for XUL/XPCOM-based browsers.
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Google Search Redirects #888

Closed Zero3K closed 6 years ago

Zero3K commented 6 years ago

Read first: https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/Contributing

Browser and Add-ons:

RequestPolicy settings: They are all at the default setting.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Search for something on Google.com
  2. Click a link in the search results page.

What happens?

It asks you if you want to redirect and offers the ability to allow the redirecting of Google.com to the domain that is in the link that was clicked on.

What should happen?

It should offer another option that allows the redirecting of Google.com to any domain when a link in a search results page is clicked on. That or it should recognize when a user clicks on a link in a search page on the popular search engines and allow them by default.

Zero3K commented 6 years ago

I just learned that it already does allow the redirects of Google to other sites when clicking on a link on a search results page. So, you can ignore this issue. I just have one question for now. Should I replace uMatrix with NoScript since I have RequestPolicy Continued installed?

myrdd commented 6 years ago

So, you can ignore this issue.

okay, I'll close it

Should I replace uMatrix with NoScript since I have RequestPolicy Continued installed?

For security, it's a good idea to install NoScript, but of course not necessary. uMatrix is more like RPC than like NoScript. It's also not necessary to disable uMatrix, because you can use uM and RPC at the same time; however, you might want to set uM or RPC (or both) in default-allow mode to avoid double effort when getting websites to work.