Link Origin — See Where Links Really Go

Hover any link to see its true destination, detect tracking, resolve shorteners, and copy clean URLs.

Ever wonder where a link actually goes before clicking? Link Origin shows you everything about any link, right when you hover over it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES 🔒 Security Insights • See if a link uses HTTPS or insecure HTTP • Detect IP addresses instead of domains (phishing red flag) • Spot suspicious TLDs (.tk, .xyz, etc.) • Identify internationalized domain names (IDN/Punycode attacks) 🔗 Link Analysis • Instantly see the base domain • Detect URL shorteners (bit.ly, t.co, tinyurl, etc.) • Identify redirect patterns • Show subdomains clearly 🚀 Shortener Resolution • Automatically expand shortened URLs • See the REAL destination before clicking • Works with 20+ popular shorteners 🧹 Tracking Removal • Detect tracking parameters (utm_*, fbclid, gclid, etc.) • One-click copy of clean URLs • Remove affiliate and analytics junk 🖼️ Rich Previews • See page title and description • View thumbnail images • Know what you're clicking before you click 📥 Download Detection • Identify file downloads (.exe, .zip, .pdf, etc.) • See file types at a glance ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PRIVACY FIRST • All processing happens locally in your browser • NO data is ever sent to our servers • NO analytics or tracking • NO account required • Completely open about what we do ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ EASY TO USE 1. Install the extension 2. Hover over any link 3. See instant insights 4. Right-click → "Copy clean URL" to share without tracking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 PERFECT FOR • Security-conscious users • Privacy advocates • Researchers & journalists • Social media users tired of tracking links • Anyone who wants to know where they're going ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆓 100% FREE No premium tiers. No ads. No catches. Just a useful tool that respects your privacy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you!