alt Hacker NewsI've been using the 'ClearURLs' FF addon for quite a while now, and it gives you the URLs back in the results.
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josephcsible • today at 5:01 AM
The reason this change is so bad is that it encrypts the actual URL, specifically to break addons like that.
II2II • today at 4:41 AM
I decided to verify the article's claims, forgetting that I had ClearURLs installed, and ClearURLs does not handle this new format.
The article also suggests that it cannot be decoded.
That wouldn’t work at all with this url format - the url can only be resolved by requesting the goto link.
I recommend reading more than the headline