hyperfekt / webextension-remove-redirect

Some web pages use intermediary pages before redirecting to a final page. This add-on tries to extract the final url from the intermediary url and replaces the link with that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-redirect/
MIT License
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Please add web.archive.org to the default blacklist #20

Open sphh opened 3 years ago

sphh commented 3 years ago

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It took me a long time to figure out, why the web.archive.org always takes me to the current website and not the archived one. Then I found that Remove Redirect removes the web.archive.org part. The following entry into the blacklist saves the day:

^https?://web.archive.org/

(A possible alternative is: ^https?://web.archive.org/web/[[:digit:]]{14}/ is more stringent and might be preferred.)

Could you please add this to the default blacklist, because I believe I am not the only (https://github.com/hyperfekt/webextension-remove-redirect/issues/8#issuecomment-520246652) one bitten by this. Thanks. And thanks for this wonderful add-on!

hyperfekt commented 3 years ago

Haha, I have definitely also been bitten by this. I figure the archive definitely is used commonly enough to warrant addition to the default.

sphh commented 3 years ago

I am really surprised, that just one single user has mentioned this problem! Thanks for considering this.