HN Broken Links

Users complain about external links posted on Hacker News failing to load directly due to referrer blocking, JavaScript requirements, or HTTP/HTTPS issues, and suggest workarounds like adding rel=noreferrer, using HTTPS, incognito mode, or indirect redirects.

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Sample Comments

tyzoid Aug 13, 2023 View on HN

Original link doesn't work without javascript

ckdarby Jun 15, 2012 View on HN

Having this not directly link to the site & instead having to read this, copy & paste the url into the browser...unacceptable

pvg Dec 10, 2015 View on HN

Adding 'noreferrer' to the link would fix it.

DodgyEggplant Aug 13, 2012 View on HN

direct links work. try http://www.quora.com/Conversion-Optimization

lazycouchpotato Feb 20, 2018 View on HN

Does this work for links from a Google search result too?

stuartmemo May 18, 2016 View on HN

Weird, can a mod change the link to https? That seems to be working - https://home.google.com/

swyx Dec 6, 2020 View on HN

they do? i just tested it. its just standard html anchor tags, all automated so i cant screw it up. perhaps try in incognito?

steckerbrett Sep 6, 2015 View on HN

If the workarounds are so commonly accepted, can you start automagically editing the links to be the google/url redirect bypass then?

Jarwain Mar 30, 2016 View on HN

Is that supposed to link me to http://no-hipsters-allowed.t28.net/ ?Edit: it directs me properly in an incognito window.

tecleandor Sep 23, 2022 View on HN

Yep, it's probably the deep linking protection. It probably doesn't like the HN referer