Skip Redirect is an excellent little extension that pretty much works exactly as I would expect it to, and it's just plain good for privacy. Fingerprinting via redirect URLs is used everywhere these days.

It has a secondary effect of making any case of a redirect url load the destination page instantly, since there is no request made nor waiting for the request to return a response before the typical redirect would happen.

It even bypasses link filter pages that are opened by Steam for example. It has additional options too for the more advanced users out there.

The only problem is that it often breaks reverse image searching services by directing you to the URL you input, but it's probably not hard to just add some filters to whitelist those instances, I just suck at regex.

I had to change black/whitelist a bit, but that was expected. Works surprisingly well with all these long chains of ad redirects.

Great: fixed an otherwise apparently insoluble issue with Google sponsored ads causing a redirect to a googleleadservices page that often went nowhere. Recommended.

barebones, but perfect

The extension works wonderfully and really improves the browsing experience. The extension options page looks pretty barebones, but it's just a minor nitpick.

Very useful. But I wonder why the latest version it is working although I am using firefox legacy (56.0.2).

This works to clean up re-direct from Slickdeals with their mind-bloggingly bad redirect that prevent your browser from reaching a site. Get it!

REALLY GOOD! No more mis-directs

Breaks the dropdown menu on Google Mail when you click the picture at the top-right. There is no way to log out or do anything else.

Lächerlich. Statt des Weiterleitungshinweises erscheint rechts unten im Bild das redirect Widget mit dem Hinweis, dass der Weiterleitungshinweis übersprungen wurde.

Edit: changing to 5 stars after the official answer that pointed to my own laziness.

Some functionality may be broken. For example, this url:
https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.massagetherapy101.com/massage-techniques/massage-stroke-glossary.aspx
Translates to
http://www.massagetherapy101.com/massage-techniques/massage-stroke-glossary.aspx
Hence deleting.