Automatically redirect Yahoo news pages to the original source site.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Yahoo.com news - redirect to original site
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 2025-03-20
// @description Automatically redirect Yahoo news pages to the original source site.
// @author Jamie Landeg-Jones
// @match https://*.yahoo.com/*
// @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=yahoo.com
// @grant none
// @license MIT
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
function redirect_to_article()
{
let link_tags = document.getElementsByTagName ('link');
for (let loop=0; loop < link_tags.length; loop++)
{
if (link_tags[loop].rel && link_tags[loop].rel == 'canonical')
{
const new_url = link_tags[loop].href;
if (new_url.match ("^https://(.*\.)?yahoo.com/"))
console.info ('Yahoo Redirect: Ignoring redirect (same site): ' + new_url);
else
{
console.info ('Yahoo Redirect: Redirecting to ' + new_url);
window.location = new_url
}
}
}
}
// Run the filter when the page loads
window.addEventListener ('load', redirect_to_article);
})();