Looking for browser plugin/extension which verifies hyperlinks

Kluge

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Quote from: KieranJones1 on November 30, 2013, 08:38:30 PM

No worries. Like I said, this idea is interesting enough to me that I'd probably pursue it without a bounty, although anything people are willing to pledge would certainly hurry its development along Wink

Just to clarify - this extension would compare the hyperlinked text with the target URL, and change the formatting (e.g. highlight green/red for good/bad) depending on the "accuracy" of the URL?

Would you also want it to work for text links (Bitcoin) or would it be necessary only for full URLs (http://www.bitcoin.org/)?

Yeah.

I guess checking URLs and "normal" text links both would be preferable. It'd probably help with remembering I need to still hover over text links.

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No worries. Like I said, this idea is interesting enough to me that I'd probably pursue it without a bounty, although anything people are willing to pledge would certainly hurry its development along Wink

Just to clarify - this extension would compare the hyperlinked text with the target URL, and change the formatting (e.g. highlight green/red for good/bad) depending on the "accuracy" of the URL?

Would you also want it to work for text links (Bitcoin) or would it be necessary only for full URLs (http://www.bitcoin.org/)?

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Yeah this is super easy if KieranJones1 doesn't do it, then hit me up, I do it for free it is that easy. I only work with chrome thou so just saying that.

Kluge

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Quote from: KieranJones1 on November 30, 2013, 08:33:18 PM

You're right, this would useful, and I can't seem to find an existing plugin that already performs this function. I'm considering coding my own solution, since this seems easy enough to get right - would you be interested?

Yeah. Can't offer much in the way of bounty, though - why I was hoping a solution already existed. Cheesy

KieranJones1

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You're right, this would useful, and I can't seem to find an existing plugin that already performs this function. I'm considering coding my own solution, since this seems easy enough to get right - would you be interested?

Kluge

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Don't get me wrong - when hovering over hyperlinks started displaying at the bottom of browsers, it was a great, useful innovation, but I don't think it's really up to snuff for today's Internet.

I'm looking for a Chrome or Firefox plugin which will scan links on the page and check if they match the hyperlink text. It really only needs to scan the domain. Especially if it's just one to three letters off from the link which appears on the page, I'd like the plugin to visually notify me - maybe by just changing the hyperlink text color to red, thus preventing me from clicking a link which appears to be bitcointalk.org but which would actually send me to [phishing]org. (ETA: Looks like theymos took care of that one, already, heh.)

I'm in the habit of hovering over every link I'm about to click to manually verify it, but I'm not perfect. I've looked for a plugin which does this, but I guess I'm not using the right keyword -- I have a hard time believing it doesn't already exist.

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