Is Dereferer Dead?

**DngrMs** · 06-21-2021, 04:42 AM

No site, DNS is wiped, lots of broken links.

**anon** · 06-21-2021, 08:33 AM

Thanks for the report, we're looking into it. Personally, I would have never noticed, because I installed a user script to strip dereferer.org from links as soon as it was added (and since all modern browsers support referrer policies nowadays, it's not really necessary anymore).

Code:

for (var i = 0; i < document.links.length; i++) {
  linkx = document.links[i];
  switch(0) {
    case linkx.href.indexOf("http://www.dereferer.me/?") : linkx.href = decodeURIComponent(unescape(linkx.href.substring(linkx.href.indexOf("") + 26)));break;
  }
}

Using a switch for a single case is inefficient, but lets you easily add lines to cover more redirectors, just change the string match and its length.

**DngrMs** · 07-23-2021, 08:40 AM

So, since it's obviously properly dead now, can we not have the URL's scrubbed and the code changed to stop the insertion?

Surely that's a couple of lines of code and a little bit of someone's time. It's been a month.

**anon** · 07-27-2021, 12:35 AM

This month has been super busy for me. I forwarded this to RealitY as soon as I saw it, but he's rarely online too. We'll get on it as soon as possible.