Discussion on Tin Foil Hat | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:19:59 +0000

Chris,

I recently wrote a greasemonkey script, Firefox extension, and Ubiquity command that allows you to preview URLs shortened with any shortening service. You can check them out at http://LongURL.org/tools

Hope that helps!

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Heath

Chris Heath — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:09:26 +0000

what about other sites that shorten urls?
is.gd is becoming more popular, as are others
is there an easy way to modify this script to work with other shorteners?

maybe there's another script i haven't found that already does this...
... anyone?

Archived Comments, replied by no_master

no_master — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:23:18 +0000

Add to my previous post:
Arh. Interesting the Intercepter 1.2 script doesn't change the tinyurl to the whole original long url, but only the domain (in my previous post = hugeurl.com)
This script (Tin Foil Hat new) doesn't do that, it show the whole original long url, cluttering up the whole page if the redirecting link really is a long link, which tinyurls obvious often is...

Now I really understand why the "Tin Foil Hat new" and "Intercepter 1.2" source codes are not the same. There really is a big difference about these two scripts.

Now I have to say that I almost have changed my mind about "Tin Foil Hat old" being better than "Interceptor 1.2" considering that "Interceptor 1.2" still does keep the link short even though it is not a tinyurl link anymore.

Archived Comments, replied by no_master

no_master — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:12:36 +0000

This script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/23817 does the same thing, but shows an icon which indicates that the link have been modified = better i think... image which explains the difference: http://tinyurl.com/yskjml

Personally I think that this "Tin Foil Hat old": http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3548 is better than both of them because it doesn't change the tinyurl link to the originally long one, but shows an toolbox tip instead.
You know... Tinyurls have been invented for a reason: shortening the long urls so the pages and posts becomes less chaotic to read (= smaller/shorter).
fx. post with links above 2 rows long is very annoying.

Take this as an example: very stupid if you have "Tin Foil Hat new" or "Intercepter 1.2" enabled: http://tinyurl.com/yw4d3q

Archived Comments, replied by no_master

no_master — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:46:49 +0000

First: To Simon: It doesn't only show it when hovering over? this script transforms the tinyurl to the real url when loading page!

Next:
This is a very cool script and it works. So far I have had to use an redirect checker, fx.: http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php when I was suspicious about tinyurls.

Just to bad that the script doesn't have any Linkification support: The tinyurl text link which Linkification converts into clickable links, doesn't show a tooltip when hovering over them :(, so for them I still has to use http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php
Would be nice if someone could make a redirect checker which supported checking for all redirecting links via: http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php
Chill

Archived Comments, replied by simon!

simon! — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:50:39 +0000

goto: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12497

try it with your script and without (lol)

Archived Comments, replied by simon!

simon! — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:41:21 +0000

Very bad, but a very good idea!
"Reveals destination URLs hidden by TinyURL" (you know when?!) when you hover your cursor on it.

Anyway, thanks!

Archived Comments, replied by greut

greut — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:03:30 +0000

Added some invisible space to avoid any un-tinyurl'd string to break the layout (especially in Twitter).

@norz It's just that the script is lighter, less agressive in regarding to the DOM tree (which can make it faster, I hope).

Archived Comments, replied by norz

norz — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:02:33 +0000

On the original script you said "An adaptation with more XPath and less JS", what does it mean exactly?

Archived Comments, replied by norz

norz — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:59:44 +0000

What are the changes?

Archived Comments, replied by greut

greut — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:24:37 +0000

Adapted from: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3548

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:12 +0000

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