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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!

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?

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.

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

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

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

try it with your script and without (lol)

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!

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

What are the changes?