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LibRedirect

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

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  • Google Chrome  LibRedirect can't be published to the Chrome Web Store as it requires Manifest v3, which removed essential features that LibRedirect needs. However, you can still install it manually.
  • Mozilla Firefox
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Top Positive Comment
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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!

windmillchess
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It's not particularly good at selecting instances.

RemovedUser
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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.

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N.A. Ferrell
2

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.

Vicky
0

Easily Redirects Invasive Social Networks to privacy-friendly frontends.

PostureQ1
0

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.

Schmebi
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Replying to @PostureQ1

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. 😉

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What is LibRedirect?

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends. YouTube icon YouTube => Piped icon Piped, Invidious icon Invidious, FreeTube icon FreeTube, Yattee icon Yattee YouTube Music icon YouTube Music => Beatbump icon Beatbump, Hyperpipe icon Hyperpipe X icon X => Nitter icon Nitter TikTok icon TikTok => ProxiTok icon ProxiTok Reddit icon Reddit => Libreddit icon Libreddit, teddit icon teddit Imgur icon Imgur => rimgo icon rimgo Wikipedia icon Wikipedia => Wikiless icon Wikiless Medium icon Medium => Scribe.rip icon Scribe.rip Quora icon Quora => Quetre icon Quetre IMDb icon IMDb => libremdb icon libremdb Reuters icon Reuters => Neuters PeerTube icon PeerTube => LBRY icon LBRY => Librarian icon Librarian

Search => SearXNG icon SearXNG, Searx icon Searx, Whoogle Search icon Whoogle Search Translate => SimplyTranslate icon SimplyTranslate, Lingva Translate icon Lingva Translate Maps => OpenStreetMap icon OpenStreetMap, FacilMap icon FacilMap Send Files => Send icon Send

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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

    DE flagManeraKai
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.8 (13 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    23 alternatives listed
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Italian
    • Indonesian
    • Ukrainian
    • Dutch
    • Galician
    • Croatian
    • Spanish
    • Czech
    • German
    • Turkish
    • French
    • Vietnamese
    • Polish
    • Japanese
    • Chinese
    • Portuguese

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Social & Communications, Web Browsers, Security & Privacy

GitHub repository

  •  4,074 Stars
  •  146 Forks
  •  38 Open Issues
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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about LibRedirect, and it has gotten 60 likes

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