What it does
Unmobile is a Chrome extension that automatically redirects
from mobile websites (such as
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome) to the
desktop countertop
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome; note the
missing ‘m’).
Installation
- Navigate to chrome:extensions or click the three bars, Tools, then Extensions.
- Download the extension here.
- Drag the downloaded file into the Extensions tab.
- ???
- PROFIT (without mobile websites)
Security/Privacy
At any time, you can see the list Unmobile is currently
using (in an Extensions tab, find Unmobile, then click
Options) or the master list (in the GitHub repository; it's
named redirect.json). The redirect list can
only redirect you based on the hostname; it can only tell
when you go to google.com, not
http://www.google.com/search?q=pics+of+cats. There
is no dynamic or downloaded JS; it's all done using regular
expression replacements.
Unfortunately, there's nothing preventing Unmobile from
redirecting to different domain names (for example, a bad
list entry could claim google.com is a mobile
website and redirect
to not-evil-google.ru. This cannot be prevented
because many legitimate websites use different URLs for
mobile and non-mobile websites (for example, Weather
Underground's mobile website is i.wund.com
while the desktop site is at
wunderground.com).
Your local copy of the redirect list is automatically updated once a day; you can also force an update in Unmobile's options.
Changelog
See GitHub.
License
Copyright © 2014 Jon Ross.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated
documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the
Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall
be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS
OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.