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FastForward isn't working, can't bypass many websites hence any alternatives?

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FastForward isn't working, can't bypass many websites hence any alternatives?

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    Care to share what is fastforward?

    • asudox@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        Universal Bypass is what you forgot

        • asudox@lemmy.world
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          Yeah that, thanks.

          • tun@lemm.ee
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            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.

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

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          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

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        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

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

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      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

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    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…

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    How is that different from clearurl?

  • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s a website, not an extension, but you can try bypass.city

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