Preview links on hover inside a clean, sandboxed popover. Bypass trackers, block ads, and read articles distraction-free.
Users
3
−1 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#300K
#244K among extensions
Version
1.0
updated 3 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:3 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About LinkShift: Sandboxed Link Previewer
Preview links instantly on hover inside a clean, sandboxed popover window. Peek at websites, streaming links, and articles without opening new tabs, triggering unwanted redirects, or getting hit with popunder ads!
LinkShift gives you full visibility over where links lead before you click. Designed for fast browsing on news sites, ad-heavy streaming mirrors, forums, and social feeds, LinkShift isolates link previews in a secure popover while auditing redirect paths and stripping privacy trackers.
✨ KEY FEATURES:
• 🔍 Instant Hover Previews:
Simply hover your mouse over any link to inspect the destination page inside a floating glassmorphic popover.
• 🛡️ Anti-Redirect & Anti-Popup Shield:
Peek at streaming links, mirror players, and download pages without triggering annoying popunder ads, aggressive redirects, or tracking loops.
• ⚠️ Expired Stream & Dead Link Detection (404 Alerts):
LinkShift automatically audits target URLs and alerts you when a video stream or mirror link has expired or returned a 404 Not Found error before you click.
• ⚡ Automatic Tracker Bypasser:
Strips invasive tracking parameters (utm_source, fbclid, gclid, twclid, etc.) from destination URLs so you get clean, privacy-preserving links.
• 📖 Reader Summary & Live Visual Modes:
Toggle seamlessly between a clean, distraction-free Reader text summary and the Live Visual webpage view using the header action buttons.
• 📋 One-Click Clean Link Copy:
Copy sanitized, tracker-free URLs directly to your clipboard with a single click.
• 🔒 100% Client-Side Privacy:
LinkShift operates entirely inside your browser. No browsing data, URLs, or personal telemetry are ever logged or transmitted to external servers.
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⚠️ COMPATIBILITY & WEBSITE LIMITATIONS DISCLAIMER:
While LinkShift is designed to work seamlessly across the vast majority of web pages, blogs, news portals, torrent mirrors, and video streaming hosts, please note:
• Certain platforms enforce strict cross-origin security policies, client-side single-page application (SPA) state checks, or mandatory user account logins (e.g. private dashboards, protected social portals, or banking sites).
• For websites that restrict live iframe rendering, LinkShift will automatically display a clean Reader Text Summary or allow you to open/copy the clean link directly.
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HOW TO USE:
1. Hover your cursor over any hyperlink on any website.
2. The LinkShift sandboxed popover window will appear automatically near your cursor.
3. Move your mouse away to dismiss the popover, or click "📋 Copy Clean Link" to share tracker-free links!
Growth
Window
Users
Change
Ratings
Rating
7 days
−1
−25.0%
0
0.00
30 days
−1
−25.0%
0
0.00
Chrome Web Store search rankings
Where LinkShift: Sandboxed Link Previewer appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change