Prevent URLs on embedded Disqus discussions from redirecting.
/*
This is a Greasemoneky user script to prevent URLs on embedded Disqus discussions from redirecting.
Copyright (C) 2017 aktai
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
// ==UserScript==
// @name Disqus Ignore Redirects
// @description Prevent URLs on embedded Disqus discussions from redirecting.
// @namespace aktai
// @include https://disqus.com/embed/*
// @version 1
// @grant none
// @license GPL-3.0+
// @supportURL https://github.com/aktai0/Disqus-Ignore-Redirects
// ==/UserScript==
// This is implemented as a click listener, so it works even on links in comments added after clicking "Load More Comments"
document.addEventListener('click', function (event) {
// Ignore clicks on non-"a" tags and "a" tags whose href attribute does not contain "disq.us"
if (event.target.tagName != "A" || event.target.href.search(/https?:\/\/disq\.us\//) == -1) {
return;
}
// Regex to match a "disq.us" URL and group the original URL, up to the last encoded colon
var redirRegex = /https?:\/\/disq\.us\/url\?url=(.*)%3A.*/g;
var newURL = event.target.href.replace(redirRegex, function (match, p1) {
// Match the original URL and return the decoded version
return decodeURIComponent(p1);
});
// Update the "a" tag's href attribute
event.target.href = newURL;
}, true);