Greasy Fork

Bypass gmail about page

When i log off of my gmail account on firefox,
even if i do it by removing cookies, the gmail system (weirdos)
force mt to quickly go there:
https://www.google.com/gmail/about/
& when my aim is usually to open another account,
i have to click "again" on the Sign In button on top..

My aim is to have a script that bypasses
google.com/gmail/about

& goes directly to:
https://accounts.google.com/ (even if it adds arguments to that url after)

& not
https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/identifier?service=mail
or not
https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/identifier?passive=1209600&continue=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com%2FManageAccount&followup=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com%2FManageAccount&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin

because the weirdos at gmail might change that url again in the future
seeing all added stupid arguments in the url.. & break the script.

When i'm on gmail.. i don't need to be redirected to stupid about pages
when all i want is to manage my emails..... .

noone ?

The logout link has the landing URL which is specified by the continue URL variable. Change that to anything you want. If possible, change it to e.g. about:blank. Otherwise, change it to localhost - even though you don't have any web server installed locally and it'll eventually give an error page. That is, if you want to minimize internet cost.

Thanks for the info but i'm not a coder, the task requires a code.. & i'm not going to change a url variable "on the fly".. if that variable's faultive, a script is still needed.

First of all, you should check the URL of your GMail's logout link first. Mine is:

https://accounts.google.com/Logout?hl=en&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail&service=mail&timeStmp=[some_number]&secTok=[a_hash]

As you can see, the continue URL variable doesn't point to GMail's about page. If yours is the same, chances are that the redirection is done at protocol level which is beyond the reach of JavaScript (mine doesn't redirect to GMail's about page, BTW; I don't know why). If yours points to the GMail's about page URL, then it may be possible.