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Re: No more Redirect page.

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micky wrote:
> 
> This post may seem like I'm talking down to you folks, but it's what I
> sent to my friends who don't know much, and I haven't rewritten it much,
> bit.  Just skip to the end.
> 
> Tired of the latest annoying thing on the PC?   The Redirect page.
> 
> You may have noticed by now that clicking on Google search links
> sometimes or always makes you stop at a page to "permit" redirection to
> another page, even though you clicked on it in the first place and even
> though it never did this before.  "The "redirect notice" page usually
> appears because Google wraps outbound links with a tracking parameter
> (google.com/url) to gather analytics and scan for malicious URLs". Other
> things scan for malicious urls so I'm guessing it's the tracking that's
> important to google.   I don't care if they track me, but I don't want
> to waste time clicking again, or learn a new habit, that I have to click
> a second time in a second tab.
> 
> So, I want to get rid of this.  Below is an add-on for Firefox. Whatever
> web browser you use,  Firefox, Chrome, Edge --- and it might exist for
> less common ones too  --- look in the add-ons  or extensions and look
> for SkipRedirect or Bypass Google Redirect Notice.  Or even easier, just
> search for "Redirect" and there will probably be only one add-on with
> that word  in the name.
> 
> This is the one for Firefox.  it seems to beep and display a little box
> for a seconds or two that says it has performed the redirect. (Maybe
> he'll get rid of that some day.  But you can use the Volume Mixer to
> turn off System Sounds if you want   This will also turn off other
> sounds, like, I think, sounds made when you make an error.)  The add-ons
> for other browsers may also have been written by Sebastian Blask.
> 
> TripAdvisor also displays a separate Redirect notification page.  I
> don't encounter that nearly as often as I use Google search.  I just
> checked and yes, ithis add-on gets rid of that too.
> 
> 
> Skip Redirect by Sebastian Blask
> 
> "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.
>     4.5 stars  (198 reviews)   11,890 Users"
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-redirect/

This works but adds a significant amount of time to web browsing.
I tried it for a week then turned it off.

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No more Redirect page.  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-07-24 11:03 -0400
  Re: No more Redirect page. Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2026-07-25 15:46 -0500
    Re: No more Redirect page. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-07-25 20:24 -0400
      Re: No more Redirect page. Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2026-07-26 01:37 -0500
        Re: No more Redirect page. "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-07-26 09:22 +0200
          Re: No more Redirect page. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-07-26 11:46 -0400
            Re: No more Redirect page. "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-07-26 21:25 +0200
              Re: No more Redirect page. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-07-26 19:26 -0400
                Re: No more Redirect page. "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-07-27 10:34 +0200
                Re: No more Redirect page. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-07-27 10:43 -0400
                Re: No more Redirect page. "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-07-27 21:00 +0200
                Re: No more Redirect page. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-07-28 13:33 -0400
                Re: No more Redirect page. "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-07-29 10:53 +0200
                Re: No more Redirect page. "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-07-27 20:45 -0400
                Re: No more Redirect page. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-07-29 23:01 -0400
  Re: No more Redirect page. "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-07-28 21:50 +0200
    Re: No more Redirect page. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-07-29 22:59 -0400

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