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@FirewallDragons For the first few minutes of you talking about the Bitly story, I was thinking to myself, "I could've sworn that it already does that." Eventually I realized that no, that's Adfly I was thinking of. The story is that Bitly has degraded into Adfly.
If the actual implementation turns out to be accurate to what you read out on the show, it will be trivially easy for a browser extension to automatically and instantly skip you straight to the destination URL. The only question is whether or not uBlock Origin, specifically, will have (or add) the ability to do it.
@adambyte Depends on how the redirect is done. If the destination URL is just sitting there in some JavaScript code with a timer waiting to take you there, yes; but if the ultimate destination and the timer are controlled strictly in server-side code, you'll have to wait.
@FirewallDragons The email says, "the page includes information about the link destination." I'm confident that that means that the destination URL will be displayed in some form, meaning a script can grab it. Maybe it'll be broken into pieces, everything after the domain name will be Base64 encoded, etc., but that's all trivial to script around.