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Care to share what is fastforward?
It's a fork of a extension I forgot the name of. It basically detects link shorteners or other things and redirects you to the site that those type of stuff would redirect you to directly. It is crowdsourced so if you click on a link shortener, and it's not in the db, fastforward sends it to their db and helps others by redirecting them to the correct website the next time.
What is the reason for such an addon? Simply bypassing the tracking of the shortener?
Those sites are usually filled with ads, or you'll have to wait 10 or more seconds before they give the link. Instead this extension will redirect you in no time