rfd-redirect-stripper

⚠️ Unfortunately Google decided to remove this extension from the Chrome Web Store. It can still be built from source and added to chrome.

Strips affiliate redirects from deal links posted on https://forums.redflagdeals.com.

On every page load, it transforms a link with tracking such as

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.ca%2Fdp%2FB09YXY3DKN%3Fref%3Dcm_sw_r_apan_dp_NX4HJ8HZ3XX2YK1J900A%26ref_%3Dcm_sw_r_apan_dp_NX4HJ8HZ3XX2YK1J900A%26social_share%3Dcm_sw_r_apan_dp_NX4HJ8HZ3XX2YK1J900A%26starsLeft%3D1%26skipTwisterOG%3D1&tag=redflagdealsc-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=15121&creative=330641

into

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09YXY3DKN

Why?

This helps navigate around broken links when using certain adblockers.

Building the extension

To build the extension, run:

npm install
npm run build

Updating redirects

The browser extension will update the list of redirects by periodically fetching the latest redirects.json.

Open a pull request to this repo to update the redirects.

An easy way to test regex: regex101.com.

New config can be tested by pointing the config url of the extension to your own branch.

For example:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davegallant/rfd-redirect-stripper/my-new-branch/redirects.json

Tampermonkey Script

This was originally a Tampermonkey userscript before evolving into a browser extension.

To use as a tampermonkey script, copy script.js into Tampermonkey.