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A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends

37 mentions on Hacker News by 34 people: 4 stories, 33 comments · first 2022-03-07 · latest 2026-09-27

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  1. https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension problem solved
    comment by josmar · 2026-09-27 · in Font where each token is equal-width
  2. Libredirect does exactly that: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
  3. …Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ Chromium Instructions - https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
  4. https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
  5. https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
    comment by Cider9986 · 2026-07-06 · in GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
  6. …the end, thank you people after searxng project and public instances. [1] https://searx.space [2] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
    comment by RandyOrion · 2026-07-04 · in SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
  7. There is Libredirect which does the same and more: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension https://libredirect.github.io/
  8. Install 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.
  9. …YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends. https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
  10. …the web. [1]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xzTH_ZqaFKI [2]: https://yewtu.be/embed/xzTH_ZqaFKI [3]: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
  11. …and seems more actively developed [2] [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/libredirect [2] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
  12. …instead will download binaries (or docker containers) (sic) to run frontends on user's device. [0] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/issues/725#...
  13. Yep, check out LibRedirect: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
  14. …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…
  15. 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.
  16. …turns into https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/gallery/eMKxD6t . [0] https://codeberg.org/elttil/rimgo [1] https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
  17. …into it. Here are the links for both projects: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect/ LibRedirect looks good!
    comment by cf100clunk · 2022-11-29 · in Nitter.it: Unavailable for Legal Reasons
  18. Link for the curious: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
  19. 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…
  20. These two, together: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect Sounds like the changes you want should be possible to add to NewPipe.
  21. …network.http.sendRefererHeader. It breaks some websites which rely on it for "security" though. [1] https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect EDIT: I just found out on the amiunique website that over 12% of browsers disable it. Does this…
    comment by demindiro · 2022-10-26 · in Ask HN: Do you browse without JavaScript?
  22. Libreddit for Reddit is fantastic: https://libredd.it Here is a more exhaustive list: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
    comment by Proglift · 2022-10-12 · in Wikipedia is not short on cash
  23. …time to switch to Firefox is right now. [1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv2/ [2] https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect/issues/45#issueco... [3] https://libredirect.github.io/faq.html#chrome_web_store
  24. There is also LibRedirect[1] which automatically redirects to an alternative frontend. [1] https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect
  25. …LibRedirect[0] which can automatically redirect you to alternative frontends for many services. [0] https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
  26. I can because LibRedirect ( https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect ) automatically redirected it to https://libreddit.projectsegfau.lt/r/CalvinBot/comments/bdxb...
  27. …because of manifest V2, there is privacy redirect but its abandoned and doesn't support scribe. https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
    comment by jacooper · 2022-07-13 · in Ev Williams to step down from Medium
  28. I use LibRedirect: https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect
    comment by Risse · 2022-06-23 · in Twitter Notes
  29. …provide an option to automatically redirect to old.reddit.com instead of libreddit or teddit) [1]: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
  30. …available for manual installation [2] [1] - https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect [2] - https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
  31. Privacy redirect or libRedirect https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
  32. …[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [2] https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect [3] https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
  33. With LibRedirect[1] you automatically get redirected from twitter et al. to these instances. [1]: https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect