[sleepingreset]

Hi Gwern, I'm honestly not sure. I have some firefox extension that skips trackers and other redirects. I have like 100 firefox extensions, actually. I'm not sure how most of them work nor what they do exactly, I just trust that they make my browser more "secure" and I tend to download things at random -- especially if I see ads or want certain features in my client (i.e. a browser that auto-rejects cookies).

Happy to try and help you figure this out but when I revisit this specific hyperlink I'm still getting the gwern url & not arxiv

[gwern]

Hm. So you're getting the raw URL but you don't have NoScript / block JS specifically? Can you check in an incognito window and if it still happens, ablate all your extensions in a fresh profile (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...), which is something you might want to keep handy if you really have 100 extensions running and no idea what they all do...