Reviews & Comments of Unshorten.link chrome extension
From June 9th, 2016 to March 31st, 2023, 34% user give 5-star rating, 21% user give 4-star rating, 14% user give 3-star rating, 10% user give 2-star rating, 21% user give 1-star rating. for Unshorten.link chrome extension.
Reviews of unshorten.link:
This extension used be an awesome service (pre-2023), but something is broken. I noticed the broken behavior when I could no longer visit LinkedIn shortened URLs. It looks like the extension hasn't been updated in a while, so I fear it's a dead project. Hopefully they fix it.
The extension is useless
trash
I have been using last couple of days. It doesn't seem to work on bitly links on facebook, i have to copy the link, go to unshorten.link website and then paste to analyse.
Used to work well, but seems like the developers have stopped caring about it. Not worth it anymore, many popular links no longer work making it useless.
Unfortunately it stopped working. Right now the only I got is a 404 error.
Getting an error for https://youtu.be/nIEcoi6cf2Q for example
Doesn't do anything, can't get it to unshorten URLs.
I was really liking this extension up until this past week. It seems to only work about 10% of the time now for some reason. It keeps coming up with a timeout error, try again in 30 seconds (which never works btw). Don't know if it's just me or if others are experiencing this as well. Was this a Chrome update issue? Does the extension need a new update? Would love to have it functioning again as it really was a great service.
works but there are still shortener sites that are not unshortened yet, hope they add more shortener URLs to the list to be unshortened
Fantastic service, easily one of the most useful apps that I have in my Chrome browser... Have not upgraded yet, but definitely plan on it in the future... Keep up the good work and I will support the cause by buying an upgrade as soon as I have some spare $$££ :) Meantime, I will give out recommendations as much as I can :)
The product works well, but when enabled this product is talking to a server spreading malware. The extension is communicating to 199.59.242.150 constantly. This IP has been serving malware and hosting botnets and pornography. This might be unrelated to the application itself, I am not sure. Regardless, I am not going to have any of my machines communicate with a server spreading malware, etc thousands of times per hour.
Works as intended
This is an excellent extension.
I LIKE IT.THANK YOU!
Doesn't work
stopped working, how do I remove it from Chrome?
well some adfly were in infinite loop means the unshorten link was the same as original one, i like the idea but it would be better to add an option to see the original link in popup or a dialog box, also users should be able to rate the website and see the ratings so that one can know if the site is bad even without using cookies or not
awesome but make bookmarks or recent files on small icons
There should be a way to report other URL shorteners. For example, bit.do is not supported.
I thought Unshorten.link was going to display the expanded URL at the bottom of the browser-window where link destinations are usually displayed. Instead, you click on a shortened link, and a whole page pops up displaying the expanded URL in easy-to-read glorious color. Then, you can click the expanded URL or not, or just close the pop-up if your curiosity is assuaged, whatever you like. Also, easy to mouse-drag-select the expanded URL, and copy it without necessarily opening it. I think that's fine. Thanks.
SAVED ME FROM MULTIPLE WEBSITES WOULD 100% RECOMMEND!!!
It should have an option to turn of temporarily rather than always on. Other than that its AMAZING!
Great, but adf.ly keeps looping with the page.
Currently not detecting/expanding "sh.st/" links, might they be able to get added to the links directory?
saved me so many times
Have used this extension for quite some time. Suddenly, due to a recent update I assume, it now causes Chrome to launch extremely slow.
I blocked all short urls, but this app, makes it so when i click the blocked url, it opens a new tab and shows the normal URL and I can click that. This is great because if this app fails, I am not at risk, but if the app DOES work (which it did during testing), then I have a chance to trust the url.
GREAT, GREAT, GREAT!