Tag: REDIRECT

Digg users recently noticed some interesting new behavior related to Digg's shortURL service, the Diggbar: instead of shortlinks going directly to their destinations, logged-out users who click them will now land on the corresponding Digg.com page. Sure, that's a lot of new traffic for Digg, but it's problematic because the change was never announced, and users who generate Digg links might not ...

Redirects, though occasionally warranted, usually—such as in the case of About.com's external links, for example—do little but hinder. Redirect Remover is an extension for Firefox which solves, or at least goes a long way toward solving, this annoyance. It reads the links on pages you read and when it sees one that looks like a redirect it replaces it with a direct link.It can ...