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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by jmbmxer on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:51PM (#12960997)
https://unshorten.link

I work in security and have a paranoia of shortened links (bit.ly, t.co). I got frustrated with the options out there that forced me to right click every shortened link or paste it into a site so I made this Chrome extension / web app. It is pretty simple and keeps a list of 300+ shortened link services to check against. If your browser ever visits one it redirects you to the site to expand the link. It will also hit the Google Safebrowsing API to see if it is known to be malware plus will strip out tracking cookies.

It's been fun and rewarding watching my little extension grow to global use of over 4k users.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by saamm on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:27PM (#12963850)
Does anyone know of a Firefox equivalent of this extension?
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by toennisforst on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:06PM (#12963990)
No, but you can use Chrome Store Foxified to install most Chrome extensions in Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by eriknstr on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:10PM (#12969648)
That's pretty neat!
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by jmbmxer on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:26PM (#12964054)
It's in the works!
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by i336_ on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:01AM (#12966855)
Relevant PSA to file away:

http://goo.gl/zxcvb2+ (toy link, doesn't work)

Note the + at the end: it gives you a detailed statistics page that also tells you what the URL points to.

(NB, the stats come from JSON that seems easy to fetch; ratelimiting/"that's not a browser"-checking untested.)

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by jmbmxer on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:20PM (#12969144)
This is a great tip. I had no idea this existed.
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by flashman on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:45PM (#12964394)
Does it warn you if someone sends you a link designed to log your IP address and browser? e.g. one generated on http://grabify.link
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by jmbmxer on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:21PM (#12969167)
It'll expand a goo.gl link which would then display the Grabify link. The extension does not support Grabify but will certainly be adding it. I'm not a fan at all of these IP trackers.
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by benjarrell on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:51PM (#12962090)
This is something I have been looking for, thank you!
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by olkid on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:34PM (#12962949)
brilliant
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