
How to prevent an url from redirection and force to open that original url instead?
Hello Hello sometimes websites redirect away from the requierd adress to something wrong.
Samples: https://www.writelatex.com/read/sjchktdtqwcm This redirects to https://www.overleaf.com/
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110765980098077923527/posts/JpSZhceCDXE this redirects to https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/new-community-features-for-google-chat-and-an-update-currents%20.html
How can i force such sites to stay at the link-address ans open that properly instead of even trying to redirect?
Best regards Maxi
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Hi Maxi, it's very hard to prevent a redirect AND view content at the original URL unless the web server BOTH sends an actual page AND the page contains a redirect instruction. In that case, stabbing the Esc key numerous times may prevent the redirect. But in most cases, the server sends a redirect header and new URL without sending the original page content.
For your first example, it looks like the company changed its name 10 years ago:
https://www.overleaf.com/blog/190-writelatex-is-continued-overleaf
To see the old page, you can search the URL on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. They do have some captures:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.writelatex.com/read/sjchktdtqwcm
It looks like the 2017 capture has a useful redirect.
I didn't check the second one, but Google Plus shut down a long time ago.