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LinkPeelr

Extension Delisted

This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.

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CRX ID
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Status
  • Minor Policy Violation
  • Removed Long Ago
  • No Privacy Policy
Description from extension meta

Know Where Link Is Going Before You Click

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LinkPeelr
Description from store

LinkPeelr expands any short link (URL) and reveals the actual long link behind it. Just hover your mouse over the short link and a tooltip will appear showing you the long link behind it. Nothing more, nothing less. You can then click on the link or keep going without leaving the page.

✓ Works on any page, including Facebook and Twitter
✓ Works with all URL shorteners, including t.co, bit.ly, is.gd, ow.ly, etc.

NOTE: If you have a question, want to suggest a new feature, or report an issue, don't use the feedback form below. I will have no way to get back to you if you do. Just tweet me @ibagrak or send an email to ilya.bagrak+linkpeelr @ everyone's favorite Google email service.

v2.0.3:
+ Enabled extension for Facebook and Twitter pages

v2.0.0:
+ Updated extension for the new Google Chrome extension specification

v1.7.5:
+ Extension can now process short URLs with multiple levels of indirection ("deep peel")

v1.7.0:
+ Added "where" URL parameter to all extension requests

v1.6.1:
+ Plays well with Twitter @anywhere hovercards

v1.6:
+ Removed toolbar icon (by popular demand). Thanks for your comments.

Latest reviews

Rachel Phillips
does as expected , it be better if i allowed to click on the url, it disappears when you try to click. Its also lacking copy feature.
zxginay
Cool, but doesn't work on Facebook
Lada Flac
Seems it doesn't work on LinkedIn.
Anonymous
Worked on Twitter but not on Facebook. Not sure why. I'll try it for a bit and come back to update my review.
Tim M
Does not work
太一白岩
マウスを重ねたときだけリンクurlをポップアップしてくるので、レイアウトが崩れることがないのが気に入っています。
Tim Monaghan
Shows surveys to 20% of people who install app after viewing the source code. MalwareBytes flags it as malicious. EDIT, goto extensions, then click "background page" on linkpeelr, right click background.js and open in new tab, and it literally has a line of code that says "// Show surveys to 20% (~600 people)" and then the code to display the survey
Brad Hughes
Love this. Needed this because I got tired of blindly following shortened URLs.
Jill Lu
It's not working with http://goo.gl/
Burak Bas
get out
Tonya Skinner
Just wish I could click on the "long URL" as I use this to deal with sites that are blocked (my school blocks most shortener URLs). New feature?
Nandish Hegde
Works with most short URLs with a slight delay while it fetches the destination URL. No match for LongURL, probably the best one out there.
adam pisarski
Bardzo faj ne i dobre :)
Paweł
Just works!
Anonymous
Great on Facebook!
Genet Jones
Unobtrusive and indispensable. Works even in Facebook. This fixes the only thing I missed about Firefox.
Mark Major
It works for me!
Anonymous
No funciona. No muestra nada.
Anonymous
Muy buena extensión. No entiendo los problemas, aunque son comentarios antiguos. A mí me funciona perfectamente en Twitter, por ejemplo. Sólo hay que poner el ratón encima de la url corta y aparece la dirección completa y real.
Hernán Fernando
Doesn't work on Facebook, do not waste your time installing it.
Stepan Chizhov
Cool and nice looking plugin =) Don't know how I lived before =)
Dane Morgan
Does not function. I'm on whatever the newest stable chrome is and it does not pop the tool tip on any short URL I hover over at all.
Rita Gavelis
I'm using Google Chrome version Version 23.0.1271.64 on a Mac running OS 10.6.8 and the caption only reflects the shortened url. Nothing is expanded. LinkPeelr is enabled in the extensions window, but it is not working at all like pictured in the overview for the app.
Stormy Henderson
Have never seen it work.