Disable Disqus URL Tracking

Remove the http[s]://disq.us/url?url= Disqus added in 2016-12

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install a user script manager extension to install this script.

(I already have a user script manager, let me install it!)

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You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

(I already have a user style manager, let me install it!)

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Disable Disqus URL Tracking
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.4
// @description  Remove the http[s]://disq.us/url?url= Disqus added in 2016-12
// @author       Luke Breuer
// @match        *://disqus.com/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // not using jquery because:
    // https://statuscode.ch/2017/03/CSP-unsafe-eval-and-jquery/
    // but we can apparently trust that Disqus included it

    function post_count() {
        return $("#conversation li.post").length;
        //return document.evaluate("count(//*[@id='conversation']//li[@class='post'])", document, null, XPathResult.NUMBER_TYPE, null).numberValue;
    }

    function fix_urls() {
        // As of 2016-12-20, Disqus uses http tracking for http links, and https tracking for https links
        var urls = $("a[href^='http://disq.us/url?url='], a[href^='https://disq.us/url?url=']");
        //console.log("Offending URL count: " + urls.length);
        //console.log(post_count());

        urls.each(function() {
            var new_url = /^https?:\/\/disq.us\/url\?url=(https?:.*?)(:.+)?(&.+)?$/i.exec(decodeURIComponent(this.href))[1];
            //console.log(decodeURIComponent(this.href));
            //console.log(new_url);
            this.href = new_url;
        });
    }

    function wait_for_min_posts(min, max_tries, f) {
        var try_wait = 200; // ms
        var tid = setInterval(function() {
            if (post_count() >= min) {
                clearInterval(tid);
                f();
            }
            if (--max_tries <= 0)
                clearInterval(tid);
        }, try_wait);
    }

    //console.log("UserScript entered");

    var lastCount = 0;
    var iteration = 0;
    setInterval(function() {
        var count = post_count();
        iteration++;
        if (count != lastCount) {
            console.log(iteration, count);
            lastCount = count;
        }
    }, 50);

    wait_for_min_posts(1, 200, function() {
        fix_urls();
        // catch additional comments loaded from navigation to specific comment (#comment-)
        wait_for_min_posts(post_count() + 1, 100, function() { fix_urls(); });

        $('#posts > div.load-more > a').click(function() {
                wait_for_min_posts(post_count() + 1, 100, function() { fix_urls(); });
            });
    });
})();