On/off switch for redirects

Currently, after you set up a custom redirect, you can only edit it or delete it completely. I'd like the option to disable them and be able to re-enable them later, like you currently can do with lenses.

For example, I use custom redirects for redirecting some websites (eg. reddit) to an alternative frontend website. However, the alternative frontend is sometimes down, or Reddit changes something and the frontend breaks. I currently have to delete the redirect and then, when the frontend is fixed, set it up all over again. It would be great to be able to just disable it and enable it later.

Hi @fxgn ,

When a URL is rewritten, you can click the three-dot menu and there will be an option to open the original URL.

While I agree it could be useful to have an option to "pause" a redirect, let us know if that works for you.

z64 thanks, this does help! It would still be useful to have a way to turn off redirects though.

Turning personalization off should also dsiable redirects? @z64

@Vlad it would be better to have toggles for each custom redirect in the settings UI. And I don't think that disabling custom redirects with the personalization toggle is good UX, I expect this toggle to only influence my domain rankings.

I already had the same issue as OP, I wanted to disable a custom redirect because it wasn't working, not only for this one search, but until the redirect works again.

But I only had the option to delete it, this means I would need to rewrite this custom redirect the next time I want to use it. What I did was to write 'disabled' in front of the regex, which basically disables it, as it'll never match, but this is not the best solution.

Vlad Indeed, this is already the case.