Clear Links by Chris Bull

Shows tooltip showing web links destination. Makes website links more transparent and accessible, enhancing your awareness of your navigational security and privacy.

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About this extension

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.

Expansion of short URLs is also optionally available, so you can see where the links go without navigating to the webpage.

Code repository and release notes can be viewed on GitHub:
https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/

Keywords:
URL, link, domain, hostname, Short URL, URL expander, URL expansion

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Release notes for 4.3.2

<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/compare/v4.3.1...v4.3.2">4.3.2</a> (2025-05-07)

🐛 Bug Fixes
<ul>
<li>ensure tooltip hides when the observed link is removed from the DOM (<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/commit/eea486b3053c5004fff3d67723b734b492c2a0f2">eea486b</a>)</li>
</ul>

📝 Documentation
<ul>
<li>add coverage badges (<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/commit/35845d045ad8d238f1b18a1397c8fe2062656eb7">35845d0</a>)</li>
</ul>

💄 Styles
<ul>
<li>updated consistent indentation in Workflow YAML (<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/commit/6e1807f7ebfd8d895ab0b980b6a7bbe6c69b4520">6e1807f</a>)</li>
</ul>

✅ Tests
<ul>
<li>confirmation dialog visibility for "Reset to defaults" functionality (<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/commit/3aa784a30027c38c959849f353be3fb0f40a44fd">3aa784a</a>)</li>
<li>test suite browser capability smoke test for service workers (<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/commit/d476e5f6981d5619638c4c358b397d3e87529ae9">d476e5f</a>)</li>
</ul>

🤖 Continuous Integration
<ul>
<li>update coverage config and uploading (<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/issues/24">#24</a>) (<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/commit/6d5113e64f9ba50cbff69f24aaba6c4c47a09bb5">6d5113e</a>)</li>
<li>upload coverage reports to Codacy and Qlty (<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/commit/368ba05b435b9e5607092c8fd26e3e0612ada315">368ba05</a>)</li>
<li>use absolute path for Codacy coverage report location (<a href="https://github.com/ChristopherBull/Clear-Links/commit/1f93159ebba21ca995afa1f2fbfe04fcd6b1b78b">1f93159</a>)</li>
</ul>

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