What does HackerNews think of libredirect?

Text2Video-Zero Code and Weights Released by Picsart AI Research (12G VRAM) | Mar 2023

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.

The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it | Oct 2022

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Libreddit for Reddit is fantastic: https://libredd.it

Here is a more exhaustive list: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect

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

Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016) | Jul 2022

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I can because LibRedirect (https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect) automatically redirected it to https://libreddit.projectsegfau.lt/r/CalvinBot/comments/bdxb...

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

Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it | Jun 2022

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Might be worth checking out libredirect [1] which I use on desktop and mobile to automatically redirect reddit links to privacy-respecting front-ends like libreddit and teddit. Also since I have it on my default browser on Android, even if I open a reddit link from, say, a hackernews app, the popup webview will use my default browser which will in turn automatically redirect to libreddit/teddit. I never have to worry about seeing reddit's annoying web app, never have to worry about giving reddit my data.

(old.reddit.com still does give reddit data, and from my experience Reddit does a lot of tracking IPs + working with google + traffic correlation to figure out what stuff you browse. However if you still prefer old reddit, libredirect does provide an option to automatically redirect to old.reddit.com instead of libreddit or teddit)

[1]: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect