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About anon.to

anon.to is a free, privacy-first URL shortener and anonymous redirect service. It hides where your visitors came from and keeps no record of who opened what.

No referrer

A link opened through anon.to arrives at its destination with no HTTP referrer. The destination site cannot see which page or site sent the visitor.

The redirect page

Opening a short link shows the full destination first, so you always know where a link leads before you get there.

  • Trusted domains continue on their own after a second.
  • Unknown domains wait for you to press Continue.
  • Blocked domains show the address as text, with no way through.

Short links

Paste any address on the home page to get a six-character link like anon.to/AbC123. No account is needed. With an account you can list your links, remove them and get a QR code for each.

Direct redirects

Put https://anon.to/? in front of any address to send it through anon.to without shortening it first. Nothing about a direct redirect is stored. A site can send every outbound link this way; Integrate shows how.

No tracking

anon.to keeps no record of a single redirect: not the destination, the time, the referrer, the IP address or the browser. Opening a link sets no cookie and starts no session, and no access logs are kept.

The only things stored are the links themselves, optional accounts, abuse reports, rate-limit counters keyed by a hashed IP address, or by account for a signed-in user, that expire within an hour, and a session for visitors of the site's own pages, for forms and sign-in, that holds no IP address or browser details. Privacy has the details.

Who uses it

Forum posters, bloggers and site owners send readers to other sites without revealing the source page in the destination's logs or analytics. Others share a link without exposing a private or internal page as the referrer.

Safety and abuse

Redirect services can be misused to hide a harmful destination, which is why some security tools flag them. anon.to answers this in three ways:

  • The redirect page shows the destination before you continue, so any anon.to link can be checked safely.
  • Links to malware, phishing or spam are removed, and harmful domains are blocked.
  • Anyone can report a link.