When you click a shortened URL, do you know where it leads? Probably not. All URL redirections, including URL shortening, should be transparent. Before you click on a link, you should be able to know where it leads. So you can decide whether you actually want to open it, now that you're able to see it's destination.
Simply select “Quo Vadis?” from the context menu of any link, on any web site. The extension probes the URL and lists all URL redirections it encounters, until the final URL, in a compact popup. Each encountered URL is colored:
Check out https://basa.nl/quovadis/ for more details, and some interesting examples of Quo Vadis results.
Simply select “Quo Vadis?” from the context menu of any link, on any web site. The extension probes the URL and lists all URL redirections it encounters, until the final URL, in a compact popup. Each encountered URL is colored:
- Black: Currently being probed.
- Gray: Redirects to another URL (probed next).
- Red: Redirects to an already encountered URL.
- Orange: Returned an error.
- Green: Final URL, no errors, no redirections.
Check out https://basa.nl/quovadis/ for more details, and some interesting examples of Quo Vadis results.
