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24 alternatives to You Can Open Suspicious Links Safely

I made a website to make able to open suspicious links safely, You can open the "suspicious link" by putting it on the website, and behind the scenes on the server, there is a VM (Virtual Machine) that contains Chromium, and an API that will receive your "suspicious link" and open it in a thread using Chromium. What result will I receive ?: You get the downloaded files that are downloaded when you open the link. Also, it takes a screenshot of the page behind that link to be able to see what it looks like, and it will give you the requests made by that link when it was opened.…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Open suspicious links safely

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Anti-phishing extension that alerts you of dangerous sites

    2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Report suspicious sites to Google

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Announcement of a new extension for secure internet browsing

    Jan 2026 · islinksafe.com · its alternatives →

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    Yes, it's open source: https://github.com/lissy93/web-check :) Why I'm building this? There are a lot of tools out there for discovering meta and security data relating to a website, IP or server. But currently, there isn't anything that does everything, all in one place and without a paywall/ user sign up. It's still a WIP, and I'm working on a new version, with some more comprehensive checks, so any feedback would be much appreciated :)

    2024 · v1.web-check.xyz · its alternatives →

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    My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE. Check it out: https://impervious.com/beacon https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    URLify▲150

    Turn your URL's into suspicious looking links

    2016 · urlify.io · its alternatives →

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    Broken link checker with malware and parked domain detection

    2018 · drlinkcheck.com · its alternatives →

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    Expand URLs & links and know what you’re clicking

    2024 · unshortlink.com · its alternatives →

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    Safely receive files only you can open. 🔑📄

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Find out what's lurking in your backlink profile.

    2019 · linkgraph.com · its alternatives →

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    RevealURL▲206

    No more clicking unknown short-URLs

    2019 · revealurl.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Pingkat▲72

    Continuously monitor your website's public resources

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Link37▲60

    Your browser's start page, encrypted

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Search for Malicious Files and Urls easily from your browser

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    A browser extension that displays Hacker News comments for the current webpage - jdormit/looped-in

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Browse the internet with safer links one link at a time.

    2021 · safelink.one · its alternatives →

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    Expose▲126

    Share your local sites via secure tunnels

    2021 · expose.dev · its alternatives →

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    Protect yourself from crypto scams and frauds

    2018 · uppward.sentinelprotocol.io · its alternatives →

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    Bring confidence and security to your Web3 transactions

    2024 · web3antivirus.io · its alternatives →

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    Waaard▲68

    Share links only the right people can open

    2022 · waaard.com · its alternatives →

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    Easily check your website for broken and malicious links. Find and fix 404 errors, mistyped URLs, invalid SSL certificates, or links to questionable websites.

    2011 · drlinkcheck.com · its alternatives →

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