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How to auto-replace short urls with the REAL link

By Marco ⋅ October 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Short urls can be useful to shrink long links to a more tweetable size, but when it comes to recognize where they actually point to, they say little. This way, the space-saving urls often become little time-wasting machines, bringing you to places you don’t want to see (spam) or pages you’ve already visited.

Long URL Please is a firefox plugin (but also a bookmarklet for other browsers) that scans every website you visit and automatically replaces short URLs from 75 different services with the original link, letting you choose if it’s worth visiting or not. Here’s the direct link to the firefox add-on page.

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