extension ExtPose

Clear Links

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Description from extension meta

Makes website links more transparent and accessible, enhancing your awareness of your navigational security and privacy.

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Description from store This is a user experience improvement extension that reveals web links' destination in a more user-friendly and customisable tooltip, simply by moving your mouse over a link; by default, it highlights a URL's domain for links to external websites (customisable in the extension's Options menu) and thus enables more transparent links, improving explicit awareness of your navigation to an external website. One potential use case for Clear Links is to make you more easily aware of phishing email scams by allowing you to inspect a link's destination domain and allowing you to check if the destination is as expected -- identifying malicious links. It is important to note that this extension does not identify malicious links for you, instead, it informs you of links to external sites so you can make the decision yourself. By default, links to pages within the same website/hostname do not have a tooltip appear. This can be changed in the Options menu. This will make a fine addition to your security and privacy digital toolbelt. Short URL services supported: goo.gl, bit.ly, j.mp, t.co (partially) Code repository and release notes can be viewed on GitHub: https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/ Keywords: URL, link, domain, hostname, Short URL, URL expander, URL expansion

Latest reviews

  • (2016-07-07) David Gullick: Great idea! Unobtrusive whilst being informative when you need it.

Latest issues

  • (2023-08-26, v:2.1.3) Geompse: HTTPS icon color
    Hi First of all thank you for this extension. My company is running monthly internal security tests that bypasses anti-spam filters... There is only one thing that I don't like : the green "lock" icon. Now that everybody is using HTTPS, the green color gives the impression that everything is OK. I would love to see a red icon for HTTP protocol and a gray icon for HTTPS protocol. Even better : having a green icon when the domain is part of an user-defined OK list (docusign.net), and a red icon when the domain is part of an user-defined NOK list (evil.org). Bonus : handling star expressions (*evil.org) or regular expressions (.*evil\.org). Thank you for your time Geompse
  • (2016-12-23, v:2.1.2) Bill Dannevik: Tutorial?
    Any instruction manual or video tutorial?

Statistics

Installs
552 history
Category
Rating
5.0 (6 votes)
Last update / version
2024-02-16 / 3.3.0
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