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Clear Links

Makes website links more transparent and accessible, enhancing your awareness of your navigational security and privacy.

Users780Current public install base

Rating4.5Store average score

Reviews8Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

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Version4.4.0

ManifestV3

Size70.87KiB

Languages1English (United Kingdom)

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Overview

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This is a user experience improvement extension that reveals web links' destination in a more user-friendly and customisable tooltip, simply by moving your mouse over a link; by default, it highlights a URL's domain for links to external websites (customisable in the extension's Options menu) and thus enables more transparent links, improving explicit awareness of your navigation to an external website. One potential use case for Clear Links is to make you more easily aware of phishing email scams by allowing you to inspect a link's destination domain and allowing you to check if the destination is as expected -- identifying malicious links.

It is important to note that this extension does not identify malicious links for you, instead, it informs you of links to external sites so you can make the decision yourself. By default, links to pages within the same website/hostname do not have a tooltip appear. This can be changed in the Options menu.

This will make a fine addition to your security and privacy digital toolbelt.

Short URL services supported:

goo.gl, bit.ly, j.mp, t.co (partially)

Code repository and release notes can be viewed on GitHub:

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Store average score4.5Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average3.7Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text3Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews8Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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*2026年6月22日

Does absolutely nothing.

Eva Martínez2025年11月8日

Exactly what I was looking for. Offers ample customization of style and link parts to show and has virtually no delay on showing the tooltip. Next feature this could use is some sort of custom link part filtering, maybe with regex ;)

David Gullick2016年7月7日

Great idea! Unobtrusive whilst being informative when you need it.

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AI product read

Link Transparency and Security

Helps users identify the true destination of web links, especially short URLs, to improve security awareness and prevent phishing or accidental navigation to unwanted sites.

1. User installs extension. 2. User hovers mouse over a link on any webpage. 3. Extension displays a tooltip showing the link's destination details (domain, full URL, etc.). 4. If the link is a supported short URL and the user has configured OAuth (optional), the extension expands it to show the final destination.

Target users: General web users concerned about security and privacy / Users who frequently click on short links / Users who want to verify link destinations before clicking

The extension's short URL expansion feature relies on third-party APIs (Bit.ly) which may have usage limits or require authentication, but this is optional.

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension is free. There are no indications of paid features, subscriptions, or billing within the extension code. The 'pro' keyword matches in the static analysis were false positives (e.g., 'Promise', 'protected').

Confidence: 100
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Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: The extension does not require the user to log in to use its core functionality. The 'login' references in the code (e.g., options.html lines 329, 358) refer to authenticating with third-party short URL services (like Bit.ly) to expand short links. This is an optional feature for specific link types, not a requirement for the extension itself to function. The core feature (hovering over links to see destinations) works without any login.

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Medium-risk permissions

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扩展能力较强：scripting、storage

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Christopher Bull

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