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 YT Siphon.
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A simple web extension that redirects requests to privacy friendly alternatives. The successor fork is LibRedirect.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Vivaldi Browser
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
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20 Redirector alternativesRedirector 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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A 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.
A privacy-focused Android app written in Kotlin that transforms social media links to selfhostable alternative frontends before sharing them.
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.
A plugin for web browsers that brings more utility for LBRY Protocol by allowing you to find people you watch on YouTube that are available on Odysee, LBRY Desktop App and other LBRY Protocol based apps/websites, allows you to easly check your subscribtion list and much more!
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
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