CL remains unstoppable, whitelisting ignored about cleanlinks HOT 8 CLOSED

false alarm, i can't reproduce anymore. sorry.

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@Cimbali
another whitelist ignored.
go:
https://imgops.com/i.imgur.com/Dr2QZWF.png
and click express on → pixlr [express]

again no matter how many times, the whitelisted item is ignored

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AFAICT there is no bug there:

• Clicking the link cleans it and brings to imgops.com
• Whitelisting once whitelists apps.pixlr.com.
• Going back one page and click the link again, correctly brings apps.pixlr.com which then redirects to pixlr.com, with again imgops.com in the URL. Thus CleanLinks cleans this second link and brings to imgops.com again.
• Whitelisting a second time now whitelists pixlr.com
• Going back and clicking again, the browser opens the pixlr.com page as expected.

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i end up at http://imgops.com/

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Can you check the last items in your whitelist?
If there is pixlr.com and apps.pixlr.com, you should end up at https://pixlr.com/express/?exit=http://imgops.com&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi%2Eimgur%2Ecom%2FDr2QZWF%2Epng?exit=http://imgops.com&image=http%3A%2F%2Fi%2Eimgur%2Ecom%2FDr2QZWF%2Epng

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there is only apps.pixlr.com
but when it redirects me to imgops.com CL has new redirection. if i whitelist it pixlr.com is added. then i manually go back to the
https://imgops.com/i.imgur.com/Dr2QZWF.png
and it works fine on next clicks

so it's not bug after all, but it's confusing. i imagine there is no walk around this for regular user

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The problem is this site is built with 2 redirections. We can't detect the second one when we clean the first one, and having a whitelisted site redirect to a non-whitelisted one means the whitelist stops applying then.

So you basically have to repeat the whole process until it works: go to original page, click link, whitelist.

If you can think of a way to improve the experience I'm interested.

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i'm afraid solution is out of my knowledge here, but if i have to use my imagination i'd say CL should analyze link for further redirects before it does the first one, and perhaps list them all with different color (like light yellow, or something else specified in „?”), so when user ends up at imgops.com list shows there was a presumed further redirection that could be whitelisted. it's just an idea, i guess it's additional work for mechanisms with relatively rare application for user.

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