A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
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Social Switch Alternatives
Social Switch is described as 'Redirect Instagram and TikTok URLs to anonymous viewers. Access any profile, posts, tagged posts, stories profile or tags on Instagram or any profile on TikTok and the extension will redirect' and is an app in the web browsers category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Social Switch for a variety of platforms, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Web-based, Android and Microsoft Edge apps. The best Social Switch alternative is LibRedirect, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Social Switch are Privacy Redirect, Redirector, Predirect and UntrackMe.
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- 23 LibRedirect alternatives
A simple web extension that redirects requests to privacy friendly alternatives. The successor fork is LibRedirect.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Vivaldi Browser
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
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Redirector is a browser add-on for Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Opera. The add-on lets you create redirects for specific webpages, e.g. always redirect http://bing.com to http://google.com. It was originally done by request for someone on the Mozillazine forums.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Online
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi Browser
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Firefox
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14 Predirect alternativesA open source manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions that automatically redirects popular sites to privacy friendly frontends and backends
UntrackMe once set by default to open Twitter and YouTube links will transform them into Nitter and Invidious links and delegate the action to another app. It also supports Google Maps links to transform them into OpenStreetMap links or Geo URI.
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14 YT Siphon alternativesYT Siphon is a browser extension that lets you choose to open YouTube videos in alternative frontends. Instead of auto-redirecting, it gives you the power to decide with simple shortcuts.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Firefox
A privacy-focused Android app written in Kotlin that transforms social media links to selfhostable alternative frontends before sharing them.
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Farside provides links that automatically redirect to working instances of privacy-oriented alternative frontends, such as Nitter, Libreddit, etc. This allows for users to have more reliable access to the available public instances for a particular service, while also helping to...
PeerTube Companion is an experimental WebExtension aiming to improve user experience with PeerTube. Right now, the extension redirects to a PeerTube version of a video, when trying to reach it from YouTube, if it's available on PeerTube.
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