NoCountryRedirect (NCR)

THIS EXTENSION ONLY WORKS FOR BLOGSPOT.COM AND GOOGLE.COM, NO OTHER DOMAINS!

This extension makes sure you'll stay on the .com pages for google.com and blogspot.com. This is mainly done by adding the No Country Redirect (NCR) tag for those URLs. In other words it prevents you from automatically being redirected from google.com or blogspot.com to a country code top level domain (ccTLD) like 'google.jp', 'google.co.uk' or what have you got. The extension is an "unredirect solution", it completely stops or avoid redirects from google.com and blogspot.com. So there will be no more Google redirections if using this extension.

Some features:
- You can disable / enable NCRifying domains in the extension's option page. So if you want to visit a country code top level domain, like google.jp or google.de, instead of google.com, you can disable NCR for google domains. The same goes for blogspot domains (new from version 0.6.1303).
- You can open pages in local mode, and incognito mode, for quickly comparing results with and without using this extension (new from version 1.2.1602).
- You can whitelist Google domains that you do not want to have "NCRified" (new from version 0.7.1409).

A few things this extension don't do:
- This location does not change the search region (for details please visit https://github.com/klevstul/NoCountryRedirect/issues/29).
- This extension do not change your language preferences to English. If you want to change the language settings for Google products please go to:
https://myaccount.google.com/preferences?pli=1#localization
(https://myaccount.google.com/preferences)
- This extension does not alter location settings (geo location) in any way.


*** SOURCE CODE ****
The source code for this extension can be viewed at
https://github.com/klevstul/NoCountryRedirect



*** ISSUE TRACKING ****
Issues are located at:
https://github.com/klevstul/NoCountryRedirect/issues

Issues related versions prior to 1.4 (on the NCR-# format) are found at:
https://klevstul.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issues?q=project%3A+NoCountryRedirect



*** REVISION HISTORY ***
// 2017.11.09 : 1.7.1711 : frode klevstul : started using a customised version of bootstrap for saving space (#30)
// 2017.11.09 : 1.7.1711 : frode klevstul : added info about recent changes to google search (#29)
// 2017.11.09 : 1.7.1711 : frode klevstul : added additional info on avoiding redirects (#28)
// 2017.11.09 : 1.7.1711 : frode klevstul : disable google.org redirects (#27)
// 2017.01.29 : 1.6.1701 : frode klevstul : added support for google scholar (#16)
// 2017.01.29 : 1.6.1701 : frode klevstul : improved information about "local mode" on options page
// 2017.01.29 : 1.6.1701 : frode klevstul : upgraded bootstrap from v3.3.6 to v3.3.7
// 2017.01.29 : 1.6.1701 : frode klevstul : added more information, on options page, for avoiding multiple redirects (#14)
// 2017.01.29 : 1.6.1701 : frode klevstul : center aligning input data on options page
// 2017.01.29 : 1.6.1701 : frode klevstul : added "cancel changes" button to options page
// 2017.01.29 : 1.6.1701 : frode klevstul : updated footer link on options page
// 2017.01.29 : 1.6.1701 : frode klevstul : added licence to the plugin (#19)
// 2017.01.29 : 1.6.1701 : frode klevstul : updated readme page (#17)
// 2016.06.22 : 1.5.1606 : frode klevstul : fixed "save settings" button text bug
// 2016.06.22 : 1.5.1606 : frode klevstul : upgraded bootstrap from v3.3.5 to v3.3.6
// 2016.06.22 : 1.5.1606 : frode klevstul : improved popup menu
// 2016.06.22 : 1.5.1606 : frode klevstul : misc minor text changes
// 2016.06.15 : 1.4.1606 : frode klevstul : improved extension as a result of chrome ui change done in version 49 (#3)
// 2016.06.15 : 1.4.1606 : frode klevstul : investigated permission change from "tabs" to "activeTab" - not possible (#4)
// 2016.06.15 : 1.4.1606 : frode klevstul : added end user info about encrypted.google.com for avoiding redirects (#8)
// 2016.06.15 : 1.4.1606 : frode klevstul : added end user info about our data policy (we store or use nothing) (#7)
// 2016.03.11 : 1.3.1603 : frode klevstul : removed option to disable ncr icon as this feature was removed with chrome (NCR-27)
// 2016.02.06 : 1.2.1602 : frode klevstul : added options for opening links in local and incognito mode (NCR-14)
// 2016.02.06 : 1.2.1602 : frode klevstul : fixed google flights bug (NCR-21)
// 2016.01.28 : 1.1.1601 : frode klevstul : added option to disable ncr icon in address bar (NCR-19)
// 2015.12.02 : 1.0.1512 : frode klevstul : increased whitelist domains from three to 10 (NCR-15)
// 2015.12.02 : 1.0.1512 : frode klevstul : added support for google flights (NCR-16)
// 2015.12.02 : 1.0.1512 : frode klevstul : updated links on options page (NCR-17)
// 2015.08.04 : 0.9.1508 : frode klevstul : brand new layout on the options page (NCR-13)
// 2015.08.03 : 0.9.1508 : frode klevstul : improved code, to completely avoid looping for maps domains (NCR-13)
// 2015.08.03 : 0.8.1508 : frode klevstul : fixed bug that prevented user from visiting www.blogspot.xx (example: www.blogspot.fr) (NCR-8)
// 2015.08.03 : 0.8.1508 : frode klevstul : fixed code to prevent endless loop (for maps.google.com) (NCR-11)
// 2014.09.07 : 0.7.1409 : frode klevstul : added whitelisting functionality (NCR-9)
// 2014.09.07 : 0.7.1409 : frode klevstul : introduced code to prevent endless loops (NCR-6)
// 2014.09.07 : 0.7.1409 : frode klevstul : added support for domains on the format www.etvanligliv.blogspot.no (NCR-3)
// 2014.09.07 : 0.7.1409 : frode klevstul : added support for books.google.tld (NCR-1)
// 2013.03.26 : 0.6.1303 : frode klevstul : created options page for chosing what domains to NCRify
// 2013.03.26 : 0.6.1303 : frode klevstul : ignoring google logout links (example: https://www.google.[cc]/accounts/Logout2)
// 2013.03.26 : 0.6.1303 : frode klevstul : added support for maps.google.xx
// 2012.08.21 : 0.5.1208 : frode klevstul : support for google.com.xx and blogspot.com.xx (example: google.com.ua) has been added
// 2012.08.23 : 0.4.1208 : frode klevstul : blogspot subdomains containing dashes (like-this.blogspot.in) were not NCR'ified - now fixed
// 2012.08.22 : 0.3.1208 : frode klevstul : optimised code using a tab's statusInfo
// 2012.08.22 : 0.3.1208 : frode klevstul : main parts of the extension re-written to fix more bugs and clean up code
// 2012.08.18 : 0.2.1208 : frode klevstul : found a regexp bug that got fixed
// 2012.08.18 : 0.1.1208 : frode klevstul : had forgotten domains on the form .co.uk, .co.id (2x2 tld), so fixed that bug
// 2012.08.18 : 0.1.1208 : frode klevstul : disabled the options page for this version, implemented new logos
// 2012.08.17 : 0.1.1208 : frode klevstul : started developing an options page
// 2012.08.16 : 0.1.1208 : frode klevstul : first working version ready for test
// 2012.08.13 : 0.1.1208 : frode klevstul : development started