# How can I stop onebox redirection?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 26, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515 "2018-02-26T06:31:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/1 "2018-02-26T06:31:27Z")
Hello,
Consider a situation for an affiliate marketer..
where path `http://x.com/go/discourse/` is HTTP 301 to `https://discourse.org/ref=1` again HTTP 301 to `https://discourse.org/`
Problem is when I type first link, in onebox it automatically redirect to the final destination which is causing loss of revenue.
Please help me in disabling onebox and redirection for the specific path `http://x.com/go/*`
I want when I type `http://x.com/go/discourse/` link should be as it is without modification.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@dje4321](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dje4321)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/2 "2018-02-26T06:47:03Z")
You should be able to goto `Admin -> Settings -> Onebox -> Onebox Domains Blacklist` to get the result you want
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/3 "2018-02-26T06:47:33Z")
Thanks for the response.
I am sorry to inform, It’s not working. ☹
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2018, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/5 "2018-02-26T12:41:01Z")
You haven’t entered a domain in the domain blacklist.
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 6:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/6 "2018-02-27T06:29:47Z")
Onebox Blacklist option is not working. Ref: video
[https://www.useloom.com/share/f196f419ade04167b5e8a18b1c6f1126](https://www.useloom.com/share/f196f419ade04167b5e8a18b1c6f1126)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/7 "2018-02-27T18:27:48Z")
Can you repro this @jomaxro?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/9 "2018-02-27T21:21:47Z")
I can sort-of repro this.
Entering `meta.discourse.org` into `onebox domains blacklist` correctly prevents oneboxes of `meta.discourse.org` links. However, entering `gulshankumar.net` and `www.gulshankumar.net` into the setting does not prevent the oneboxing of `https://www.gulshankumar.net/go/sucuri-website-firewall`.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/10 "2018-02-27T22:26:46Z")
Wait so the OP wants to prevent _SELF_ oneboxing? That’s really weird.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/11 "2018-02-27T22:28:46Z")
`www.gulshankumar.net` isn’t an internal onebox. Discourse appears to be at `help.gulshankumar.net` - `www.gulshankumar.net` appears to be a WP site.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/12 "2018-02-27T22:30:04Z")
Still this might be an unreasonable edge case if it is the same domain. Why wouldn’t you want to onebox your own stuff?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/13 "2018-02-27T23:12:57Z")
I think the intent is to post referer links without them being obvious referer links but still have them be referer links.
For example, preserving the “u=mittineague” query string.
`https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-redirection/81515/12?u=mittineague`
I’m not certain about what kind of `RewriteRule` voodoo is going on or what domains are involved.
To me, the obvious solution would be to display the link as a link and not onebox it. eg.
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-redirection/81515/12?u=mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-redirection/81515/12)
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2018, 6:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/14 "2018-02-28T06:04:47Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Still this might be an unreasonable edge case if it is the same domain. Why wouldn’t you want to onebox your own stuff?
Hello,
I appreciate your curiosity, why I wouldn’t like Onebox. The major issue is redirection which happens due to Onebox.
Basically, to keep affiliate URLs short, memorable and easily managed at one place, I use redirection. I use Affiliate Link Lite plugin to convert ugly affiliate link to the branded form.
`https://www.gulshankumar.net/go/any-product-name/`
What I am expecting, If I type my affiliate URL, Onebox shoudn’t display final destination instead of clocked path (which is /go/).
> [@Mittineague](#):
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> I think the intent is to post referer links
Exactly. Thanks for understanding.
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### Author:  [@knewt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/knewt)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/15 "2019-12-13T22:29:34Z")
@codinghorror I’m hitting this same basic issue on my forum, wondering if there’s yet any way to force the onebox blacklist to work on sibling domains please?
In my case I have `forum.x.org` and `archive.x.org`. The latter uses the forum as an sso provider to allow entry. When entering a url from the archive, it gets oneboxed, and the url gets redirected as far as a `forum.x.org/session/sso_provider?sso=.....` link, which if clicked on then results in an error page.
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### Author:  [@knewt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/knewt)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/17 "2019-12-14T12:50:59Z")
@codinghorror Ah, I’ve just checked something this morning, and it only seems to be doing it for links that had been oneboxed (with a bad redirected link) _before_ I put the archive domain into the onebox blacklist. So there must be a onebox cache? Any idea how to remove links from that?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/18 "2019-12-15T18:36:06Z")
You can add a query string like
`example.com/link?x`
If you want to forcefully break caching.
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### Author:  [@knewt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/knewt)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-stop-onebox-redirection/81515/19 "2019-12-17T01:13:56Z")
Thanks, good to know. Seems that it fell out of the cache on it’s own in time, so sorted out now, but useful in case of any future issues.