What does HackerNews think of libredirect?

A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative frontends and backends

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Text2Video-Zero Code and Weights Released by Picsart AI Research (12G VRAM) | Mar 2023
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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.
Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices | Mar 2023
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On a laptop/PC you could give the rimgo[0] frontend a try for simple viewing, no uploading or interacting. It's by no means perfect but works really well in addition with the LibRedirect[1] browser extension.

Rimgo is basically a frontend for imgur that you can selfhost (or use a public instance). The LibRedirect browser extension automatically replaces the imgur.com URL with the specified rimgo instance.

So for example https://imgur.com/gallery/eMKxD6t turns into https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/gallery/eMKxD6t.

[0] https://codeberg.org/elttil/rimgo

[1] https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising” | Nov 2022
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Link for the curious: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option | Nov 2022
https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect is a bit over-zealous. Love the idea, but I still want to be able to browse the homepages of the sites.

After installing the addon and visiting just https://youtube.com I get redirected to https://inv.vern.cc/ that just displays "Our main server's ISP is having issues, even router resets haven't fixed it. We apologize for this long downtime". Visiting https://twitter.com I get redirected to https://twt.funami.tech/ which displays "502 Bad Gateway"

Not a great experience to be honest. Still, love the idea, but execution is poor at best.

Bibliogram, Open-source front-end for Instagram, is being discontinued | Sep 2022
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There's a great Firefox extension called LibRedirect[0] which can automatically redirect you to alternative frontends for many services.

[0] https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
Ev Williams to step down from Medium | Jul 2022
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You can install an extensions called libredirect that would auto redirect, Medium, YouTube, Twitter and many others to private proxies.

Its not available on the chrome store because of manifest V2, there is privacy redirect but its abandoned and doesn't support scribe.

https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect