go.trafficrouter.io, a popular affiliate redirect used by Skimlinks for Target.com, Lenovo.com, etc. broken by this extension

newhouse / url-tracking-stripper

An open-source Chrome Extension that will remove the tracking parameters from URLs to keep them short and cleaner for sharing, bookmarking, etc. It will also skip any known redirects and take you straight to the target URL instead of passing you through an intermediate URL.

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go.trafficrouter.io, a popular affiliate redirect used by Skimlinks for Target.com, Lenovo.com, etc. broken by this extension #86

Open archon810 opened 4 years ago

archon810 commented 4 years ago

This is what happens with the extension if you click on, say, a Target.com url https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/11/28/target-unveils-black-friday-discounts-best-deals-start-november-27th/:

The link you clicked on requires cookies to be enabled in your browser. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Without the extension, the redirect works fine, and future redirects work fine too (so test in Incognito after you click through without the extension).

Example of where you end up with this dead end: http://go.trafficrouter.io/?res=nc&original=http%3A%2F%2Fgoto.target.com%2Fc%2F10078%2F81938%2F2092%3FsubId1%3D85009X1537243X7fb27be2aa63f0ce7ba48456a8d440d2%26sharedId%3Dandroidpolice.com%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.target.com%252Fp%252Famazon-echo-dot-3rd-generation%252F-%252FA-54148143%26level%3D4&dst=&brid=&dstsig=

What is it about the extension that breaks such links and can it be fixed?

Thanks.

archon810 commented 4 years ago

Also this gets broken: http://go.androidpolice.com/?id=85009X1537243&isjs=1&jv=13.25.1-stackpath&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidpolice.com%2F2019%2F12%2F02%2Fcyber-monday-2019%2F&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.dji.com%2Fproduct%2Fmavic-2&xguid=b2157f8351ef1c117fd124ba419ce89b&xs=1&xtz=480&xuuid=cf9ffbe2aaf1ba50030e30ef84937046 - it's supposed to go to the individual product page https://store.dji.com/product/mavic-2 (with some extra params), but just goes to the homepage instead. Without the extension, it works fine.

rosstex commented 4 years ago

Side question, how did you discover this domain was owned by Skimlinks? This is useful for my current project!

liamengland1 commented 4 years ago

If you use uBlock Origin, the scripts that generate these links are blocked.

liamengland1 commented 4 years ago

@rosstex

I think the domain might actually be owned by Impact Radius, if you look at these results https://twitter.com/search?q=TrafficRouter.io and do whois lookups on the domains, they are registered to Impact.

https://www.whois.com/whois/7tiv.net
https://www.whois.com/whois/pbj2.net
https://www.whois.com/whois/ncw6.net
https://www.whois.com/whois/oxmy.net
https://www.whois.com/whois/tm7559.net
https://www.whois.com/whois/sjv.io
https://www.whois.com/whois/xhuc.net

archon810 commented 4 years ago

I never said they were owned by Skimlinks, only used by them.