Automatic Redirection to source posts from aggregators

A modern Firefox packed & unpacked (which shld work in Chrome) WebExtension to find and load the real page link in blog aggregator re-posts.

What's Inside The Tin

Many aggregators are useful. Some are horrible. And, most authors have a blog theme designed to format their posts optimally and they deserve the "clicks", too.

Load this WebExtension and whenever you hit an aggregator page that does point to a feeder blog you will automagically be redirected to said feeder blog's entry. The manifest.js file is a good place to see which ones are supported.

It should not interfere with general interaction on most aggregators, just the final target article pages.

Currently has a hardcoded delay that's long enough to register as a "view" to most ad networks (since many/most aggregators rely on ad revenue).

Current Aggregators Processed

• R-bloggers
• StatsBlogs
• Security Boulevard

Installation (Firefox)

• Clone the repo
• Read manifest.json and various js files to make sure I'm not pwning you
• Go to about:debugging in Firefox
• Hit "Load Temporary Addon"
• Select the manifest.json

TODO

• add more aggregators
• options page to customize delay time and possibly other things
• some visual indicator about the impending redirect
• better icon(s)
• no redirection on the main page of the aggregator