What does HackerNews think of privacy-redirect?

A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.

Language: JavaScript

#17 in Firefox
#6 in Twitter
AI Generated Propaganda | May 2023
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There is an open-source browser extension called Privacy Redirect which will turn all Twitter links you click into Nitter links [0].

This also turns Reddit links into Libreddit/Teddit links, YouTube links into Invidious links, etc.

Basically you get to browse an Internet without intrusive pre-roll ads or outrage algorithms. I think based on your comment that this might be of interest to you.

[0]: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect/
Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying? | Jan 2023
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You can actually pair this with a browser extension: Privacy Redirect[0].

You can setup your own self-hosted instances or existing third party ones. It's a game changer both for privacy and UX.

[0]: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to privacy friendly services | Sep 2022
How does this compare against the similar Privacy Redirect? https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
John Carmack on avoiding distractions | Aug 2022
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https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
Tell HN: Had to delete my YouTube account | Aug 2022
Try installing Privacy Redirect[0] and replace Youtube with an Invidious instance. You'll get all the content you care minus the atrocious algos (plus some obvious privacy bonus).

[0]: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

Twitter’s head of consumer product fired | May 2022
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If you want just to browse reddit then you can do that through teddit or libreddit front-end instances. And with extensions like Privacy Redirect [1] you can do it automatically.

There are also front-ends for twitter and instagram but these seem to be most faulty - sometimes it takes a while to reach a stable instance and extension tends to overwrite manually selected instances.

Edit: seems there's already a fork of mentioned extension but it's available for manual installation [2]

[1] - https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

[2] - https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect