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Block Redirects
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 12:47 am
by LimboSlam
Hey everyone. Well I got on my laptop to use someones near by open wifi (xfinitywifi 3) and decided to try out Hotspot Shield again, cuz I heard it has improved. It has, speed improvement, no more pums, pups/adware during installation and only during installation. But it still injects annoying code (adware, pop ups, redirects) at browser start up and sometimes when entering a url in the address bar.
Anyways, is there anyway to stop redirects when browsing? I know Slimjet has the option to " Replace indirect link in search engine results with direct link to original site," but that does not help if the injected code (redirected link or url) is directed to the website that promotes the add/link.
Re: Block Redirects
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 7:51 pm
by dev
Sounds like you missed a tick box when you were installing hotspot, something like Do you want to make so and so search engine the default ? I know it doesn't answer your ? but why install a product that does that anyhow ?
Re: Block Redirects
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:37 am
by LimboSlam
Yeah I'm not using it anymore, as it still a load of crap!! But it would be nice to see an option to block redirects, like in Firefox. They call it, "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page." Hey, I wonder if there's an extension for it?? Hmmmm....... I mite have to do some browsing. Well I hope this can be integrated in the near future, really do!!!
Re: Block Redirects
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:01 am
by dev
I don't think there is a way to block Meta refresh in slimjet/chrome as most are caused by google themselves. You could disable java or use noscript, i would also check through any userscripts that may do it.
https://greasyfork.org/en http://userscripts-mirror.org/index.html
Re: Block Redirects
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 1:22 am
by LimboSlam
Thanks, this helps a lot!
Re: Block Redirects
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:41 am
by Calven McVetty
HELP. I love Slimjet, but i can't use it for serious web browsing because IT HAS NO ABILITY TO BLOCK REDIRECTS AT ALL, NONE. Or at least none that i can tell, if it is here, i don't see it. Like the other guy said, Firefox has the ability to warn or block all redirects, but Slimjet does not, and as a result, you get slammed hard on the internet outside of the easy family sites. I can't yet use Slimjet as my goto browser without that option. Please create a button that you can push to stop ALL redirects. 
Re: Block Redirects
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:04 pm
by oftentired
Calven McVetty wrote:IT HAS NO ABILITY TO BLOCK REDIRECTS AT ALL, NONE.
It looks like Google Chrome is working on this. If it gets worked into the underlying Blink engine then it will come onboard when Slimjet updates to 64 and 65. If not in the Blink engine then I think Flashpeak should address it. I do agree page redirect is an irritant. It is also a way to circumvent the adblocker.
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Re: Block Redirects
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:57 pm
by Calven McVetty
Thanks for the reply... I hope they do what Firefox does and just gives you that option to stop redirects, because at this point, i rarely use slimjet now when otherwise it would be my goto browser.
Re: Block Redirects
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:00 pm
by sleeper10