FastForward isn't working, can't bypass many websites hence any alternatives? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Care to share what is fastforward?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a fork of a extension I forgot the name of. It basically detects link shorteners or other things and redirects you to the site that those type of stuff would redirect you to directly. It is crowdsourced so if you click on a link shortener, and it's not in the db, fastforward sends it to their db and helps others by redirecting them to the correct website the next time.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Universal Bypass is what you forgot

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah that, thanks.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Here is the address https://fastforward.team

GitHub has over 100 issues and some are marked broken-bypass. It is not a dead project (last updated 4 days ago). You could search there or file an issue.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

What is the reason for such an addon? Simply bypassing the tracking of the shortener?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Those sites are usually filled with ads, or you'll have to wait 10 or more seconds before they give the link. Instead this extension will redirect you in no time

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What's it used for? I mean, if the url redirects you to the original website, why should I get redirected by fast-forward instead of the original redirect? Just a question to understand the use of it. Thanks

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You know, sometimes some make you wait a few seconds and such

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It appears to be a browser plugin that bypasses those countdowns that paying link shorteners use to force you to look at ads. Sites like adf.ly

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Check this one out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-redirect/ I, ve recently installed it so can't really speak about how good or relevant it is..

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

How is that different from clearurl?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

It's a website, not an extension, but you can try bypass.city

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