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A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends
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What it is
A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
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Thats the nice thing about alternate frontends like Nitter, if the main instance goes down you can just clone the repo and make your own very easily, or choose from one of the…
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
What Hacker News says
37 sourcesLibredirect does exactly that:
https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
In XCancel service is suspended until further noticeThats the nice thing about alternate frontends like Nitter, if the main instance goes down you can just clone the repo and make your own very easily, or choose from one of the many alternate instances out there.
I highly recommend the extension libredirect, which will redirect you to instances of your choice (or just stick with the defaults). It doesn't just work for Twitter/X, but also Reddit, Tiktok, Youtube, and many others
Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
Chromium Instructions - https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
In Nitter has more working instances than before the takedownsI've been using searxng for several years now. I don't run my own instances because the inhumane network censorship imposed by GFW, and proxy detection enforced by search engines. Instead, I rely on public instances on the list [1] and libredirect [2]. Note that service from a single instance is not guaranteed, but you can always switch to other available instances with little cost within a minute.
I won't say searxng can help you degoogle because metasearch engine calls other search engines, e.g., google, to collect results. However, if you try searxng, you can at least get rid of things like ai reviews in no time.
In the end, thank you people after searxng project and public instances.
[1] https://searx.space
[2] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
In SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engineThere is Libredirect which does the same and more:
https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
https://libredirect.github.io/
In Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.comInstall libredirect extension (https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/) and select a few working instances. Then you can use the programmable shortcut keys to cycle between instances if one ever goes down.
In Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was tooI wonder why nobody posted it here.
LibRedirect: A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
In YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockersYou can embed videos from an Invidious instance instead; on a video's page[1] there's an "embed video" link[2] you can use. The instance can be one hosted by you if you don't trust public ones, and you probably want to enable proxying by default if you don't want your clients to stream the video directly from Google's servers. You can also use a browser extension like libredirect[3] to automatically replace YouTube embeds with Invidious ones while browsing the web.
[1]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xzTH_ZqaFKI
[2]: https://yewtu.be/embed/xzTH_ZqaFKI
[3]: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
In Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front endThis addon seems not to be updated in years. I would like to mention LibRedirect [1] which offers more front ends for more websites and seems more actively developed [2]
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/libredirect
[2] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
In Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front endsUnfortunately Libredirect went completely bonkers and is going to stop using public instances and instead will download binaries (or docker containers) (sic) to run frontends on user's device.
[0] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/issues/725#...
In Nitter Redirect: Firefox addon to view Twitter link without an accountYep, check out LibRedirect: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
In YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockersAnswering the immediate question: KPIs. The company is prepping for an IPO 2H2023,[1] trying to juice engagement, advertising, and revenue stats, and is well down the enshittification track: <https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys> (Doctorow's describing a different site, but the dynamic is identical in cause and consequence.)
As to what to do about it:
- I'm pretty sure RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) will kill this. Even if it doesn't, it's worth using regardless. You'll also want to visit old.reddit.com rather than the default site. <https://redditenhancementsuite.com/>
- Stop using Reddit. I largely have despite investing over a decade in a reasonably-useful-to-me bloggish subreddit. Cakeday threads are increasingly ironic. <https://teddit.net/r/dredmorbius/comments/ywhz7s/happy_caked...>
- If you have to use
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it, go through the Teddit front end: <https://teddit.net/about> You can simply replace "reddit.com" with "teddit.net" in any URL, or install a redirector browser extension such as LibRedirect: <https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension>
- Look to alternative discussion sites. I'm a member of (though fairly rare participant these days) Tildes <https://tildes.net>. There's a Federated Reddit alternative as well, Lemmy: <https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy>. Probably others.
- Spend your time more wisely. I'm finding online content vastly unrewarding in general, with few exceptions. Wikipedia for reference, and a few other informational sites. I'll check text-only news (there was a great HN discussion on this a few weeks back: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313232> based on <https://blog.wturrell.co.uk/text-only-news-websites/>). Mostly though I rely on articles, books, or (carefully curated) podcasts.
Hacker News is a quite-good link aggregator. If you want even more discriminating selections, check the curated collections:
- "best" <https://news.ycombinator.com/best>
- "invited" <https://news.ycombinator.com/invited>
- or "pool" (2nd-chance submissions) <https://news.ycombinator.com/pool>
You can also use Algolia Search to show the top items from the past week, month, or year, according to HN's vote and activity stats, by submitting a blank search and selecting the appropriate date range:
- Best of past week: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...>
- Best of past month: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...>
- Best of past year: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...>
(You can also specify your own preferred date bounds, though that's more awkward.)
HN's discussion quality varies, but it's well above the general level of Reddit, popular subreddits most particularly.
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Notes:
1. "Reddit aims for IPO in second half of 2023 - The Information" <https://neuters.de/technology/reddit-aims-ipo-second-half-20...>
Someone here showed me this extension yesterday:
https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
I don't know think it will work on mobile chrome, but for others like me that can't take imgurs bloat anymore, its great.
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