simonfrey / unshort.link

Prevent short link services from tracking you by unshortening the urls for your
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Unshort.link adds itself to the redirect #77

Open ghost opened 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hi, sorry for the title, couldn't figure any better to describe the issue.

Unshort.link 1.6 on Firefox x64 102.0 (all versions in fact) / Windows 7 x64

When using the extension a link such as https:/cnn.it/3AiTRYt is redirected to https://unshort.link/nb/https:/unshort.link/nb/https:/cnn.it/3AiTRYt Correct redirect should be of course https:/unshort.link/nb/https:/cnn.it/3AiTRYt

This, whatever the options (direct or not, check links or not against balcklist)

Using the Rediector extension in place of the Unshort.link extension with a pattern such as (.*//)(cnn.it|clickmetertracking.com|inks.gd|lnks.gd)/(.*) TO https://unshort.link/nb/$1$2/$3 (as an example) the redirect is correctly sent to https:/unshort.link/nb/https:/cnn.it/3AiTRYt

Anyone else experiencing this issue? I checked for a conflict with Firefox settings and other extensions, couldn't find anything relevant. Thanks for your opinion/advice/help.

EDIT : I've tried to email the developer. Email address provided at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unshort-link/ : Support Email is unshortfirefox@simon-frey.eu Email address provided at https://unshort.link/ : Feedback? is unshortfeedback@simon-frey.eu Both emails were returned as Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

I have no idea if this is relevant of the abandon of the extension by its developer. Unshort.link on its AMO page specifies : Last updated : 2 years ago (Jul 26, 2020)

If the extension is indeed abandoned maybe would it be pertinent that the developer mention this clearly or at least update/remove his email addresses.