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MSN.com news - redirect to original site

Automatically redirect MSN news pages to the original source site.

Author
Jamie j
Daily installs
0
Total installs
3
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Version
2025-03-17
Created
2025-03-17
Updated
2025-03-24
Size
2.04 KB
License
MIT
Applies to

When visiting a news article posted on msn.com, automatically redirect to the original story on the original site.

Do you hate it when you search for an interesting news story, and the only visible link is to the MSN.com news site, which is just reposting the news story from elsewhere?

Worry no longer, this script will automatically redirect you to the original source.

Example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-BB1qnUS4

Notes:

If the original source can't be found, your browser will remain on the MSN.com page.

Due to the way the "original URL" information is loaded by javascript, the MSN.com page has to load partially before my script can interrupt and redirect it. I tried blanking the page completely, but this caused failures.

Ideally, loading and parsing the javascript directly would probably be best, but I haven't bothered going down that route. This works, and is good enough for me :-)