FastForward

Don't waste your time with compliance. FastForward circumvents annoying link shorteners.

Users100K

Rating4.4

Reviews263

Manifest versionV3

7-day growth0

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2026年5月28日2026年6月3日

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Version0.2383

ManifestV3

Size486KiB

Languages42Deutsch / English / Filipino +39

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FastForward circumvents sites which make you wait (like adf.ly), make you do something (e.g., show.co and sub2unlock.com) and even trackers (such as bit.ly and t.co)! It also helps to prevent your IP address from being logged by sites by blocking them.

*It Does Not Bypass Paywalls!*

Privacy note:

When you have the "Crowd Bypass" option enabled, we record some links of link shortners that you visit to allow other uses to bypass them faster. This also collects a hashed version of your public IP address. See our privacy policy for more details. https://fastforward.team/privacy

We have a Discord, https://discord.gg/RSAf7b5njt

We have a GitHub, https://github.com/FastForwardTeam/FastForward

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AI product read

Automatically bypasses link shorteners, ad redirectors, trackers, and blocks IP loggers in the browser

Users waste time navigating through link shorteners (adf.ly, linkvertise, sub2unlock.com) that force waiting, watching ads, or completing tasks. FastForward skips these intermediate pages and redirects directly to the final destination, while also protecting against IP logging by trackers.

1) User installs extension and it runs automatically on all URLs via content_script.js. 2) When visiting a known link shortener, the matching bypass script (from bypasses/ directory) executes and extracts the destination URL. 3) For tracker links, the extension optionally uses the Unshorten.me API. 4) For unknown shorteners, Crowd Bypass queries crowd.fastforward.team for community-reported destinations. 5) User is automatically redirected to the final destination after a configurable delay. 6) IP loggers are blocked via declarativeNetRequest rules.

Target users: Users who frequently download files from link-shortener-heavy sites / Privacy-conscious users who want to avoid IP logging and tracking / Power users who want to skip ad-heavy redirect chains / Developers/users of file sharing and download sites

No login or payment infrastructure found — analysis is conclusive for a free, open-source community tool
Crowd Bypass sends hashed IP to fastforward.team servers per privacy policy (not login, but worth noting for privacy-aware users)

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension is free and open-source (GitHub: FastForwardTeam/FastForward). No payment platforms, subscriptions, premium tiers, or billing APIs are present. The 'premium' keyword hit in bypasses/admaven.js line 17 is the URL 'thepremium.online', which is a target site the extension bypasses, not a paid feature indicator. All options (Crowd Bypass, tracker bypass, IP logger blocking) are available to all users without gating. The 'pro' keyword matches are false positives from localization strings (e.g., 'proporciona', 'promjene', 'proveri', 'prosledi') meaning 'provide/change/check' in various languages.

Confidence: 95
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: The extension operates entirely locally within the browser with no user authentication flow. All options are stored in chrome.storage.local. The 'Crowd Bypass' feature communicates with crowd.fastforward.team via anonymous POST requests without any authentication tokens or user credentials. The token/session/userid keyword hits in bypass scripts (linkvertise.js, adtival.js, workink.js, fourshared.js) refer to tokens used to interact with the *target* link-shortener websites, not to authenticate the extension's user.

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敏感权限：declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
扩展能力较强：storage、tabs
主机权限覆盖范围较宽

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FastForward Team

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