LibRedirect
A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
EUPlatforms
- Vivaldi
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Brave
- Mozilla Firefox
- Linux
- Flathub
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- URL Forwarding
- Browser extension
- Federation
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
Tags
- automatic-instance-switching
- random-instance-selection
- frontend
- Social Media
LibRedirect News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- amyeelaborate liked LibRedirect
ARTUR52 added LibRedirect as alternative to Linkahest
OrdinaryPerson added LibRedirect as alternative to Indie Wiki Buddy
POX added LibRedirect as alternative to Trackless Links Pro
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What is LibRedirect?
A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
YouTube => 
Piped, 
Invidious, 
FreeTube, 
Yattee
YouTube Music => 
Beatbump, 
Hyperpipe
X => 
Nitter
TikTok => 
ProxiTok
Reddit => 
Libreddit, 
teddit
Imgur => 
rimgo
Wikipedia => 
Wikiless
Medium => 
Scribe.rip
Quora => 
Quetre
IMDb => 
libremdb
Reuters => 
Neuters
PeerTube => SimpleerTube
LBRY => 
Librarian
Search => 
SearXNG, 
Searx, 
Whoogle Search
Translate => 
SimplyTranslate, 
Lingva Translate
Maps => 
OpenStreetMap, 
FacilMap
Send Files => 
Send
- Multi-language
Notes:
- It will be using random instances by default. You can also add custom instances.
- On the general settings page you can activate Auto-redirect offline instances to online ones
LibRedirect information
Developed by
ManeraKai Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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Social & Communications, Web BrowsersGitHub repository
- 3,750 Stars
- 134 Forks
- 41 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Forked from Privacy Redirect to allow for more regulare updates, LibRedirect is currently the best All-in-one solution for url forwarding from popular social media websites towards privacy-friendly frontends. A fantastly BIG chunk of them is covered, and the list of instances is regularly updated so you don't have to worry about instances going offline or being unavailable.
I admitidly had some struggle with the setup, but i believe these issues will soon be resolved - if they haven't been alreaydy!
Privacy frontends do not add any privacy in general compared to using the official websites and you're trusting the instance maintainer who may or may not malicious. My recommendation would be to stick with the official websites and apps unless your threat model calls for disabling JavaScript or not logging into services.
Even then, accessing these frontends can be done without an extensions as you can manually type in the url of the instance you wish to use. A browser extension has privileged access in your browser and requires you to trust the developers (LibRedirect developers in this case). Using extensions also makes you stand out thus worsening privacy and weakens site isolation, which is necessary for safe browsing.
That said, LibRedirect does have some useful features like randomly switching instances, but this does not make up for the fact you're trusting a privileged extension and reducing security and possibly privacy.
Also, LibRedirect isn't recommended by Mozilla, so it's not a trusted extension and I would never use this.
It's not particularly good at selecting instances.
Free and open source extension which redirects links from a number of services to privacy-friendly front-ends. Supports instance switching from the extension menu, toggling instances on and off, and adding your own instances. It is the best available extension for this purpose.
Easily Redirects Invasive Social Networks to privacy-friendly frontends.
Updated: Now the extensions works flawlessly, now it is rare to get offline instances, and the extension stopped throwing you directly into the original website.
OUTDATED: Cool concept, but sadly this extension does not work most of the time, most front-end alternatives are offline, and sometimes the extension does not even try to redirect you to other frontend it just lets you enter the website directly. I really wish that this extension gets fixed, the concept is really good, but the execution is not good.
Instead of Privacy Redirect, the instance lists get updates frequently. And the browser extension, is depending on the instances. (It's not the extensions fault) I would recommand you to try it again. 😉