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sblask-webextensions / webextension-skip-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 goes there straight away if successful.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/skip-redirect/
MIT License
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add web.archive.org to default no-skip URLs list #362

Closed Ultrabenosaurus closed 5 months ago

Ultrabenosaurus commented 5 months ago

Original behaviour redirected from Wayback Machine to archived URL; adding web.archive.org/ to no-skip URLs list in extension settings fixes this and lets users stay on the Wayback Machine.

Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20240425045640/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese

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sblask commented 5 months ago

There have been plenty of discussions around this, I am not maintaining entries for specific sites.

Ultrabenosaurus commented 5 months ago

Fair enough, I'll drop it after this, but I do ask you to seriously reconsider.

This is incorrect behaviour for the extension, a false positive, as Wayback Machine is not supposed to redirect. It shows you an old version of an archived page and there is no redirect to skip in the first place. Every single user will have to manually add web.archive.org to the extension's no-skip-urls-list to fix the fundamental purpose of the Wayback Machine which this extension is breaking. As long as Skip Redirect incorrectly throws people off of web.archive.org you will continue to get people raising Issues and Pull Requests for it, I imagine.

sblask commented 5 months ago

Yeah, I know, but the alternative is that people keep coming with rules for all kinds of websites that I can't and don't want to look into.