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LibRedirect - privacy-friendly Redirector (libredirect.github.io)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and other websites to their alternative privacy friendly frontends

YouTube → Invidious, Piped, Piped-Material, PokeTube, CloudTube, Tubo, FreeTube, Yattee, FreeTube PWA
YouTube Music → Beatbump, Hyperpipe
Twitter →  Nitter
Bluesky →  skyview
Reddit → redlib, Teddit
Tumblr →  Priviblur
Twitch →  SafeTwitch, Twineo
TikTok →  ProxiTok
Instagram →  Proxigram
IMDb →  LibreMDb
Bilibili → MikuInvidious
Pixiv →  PixivFE
Fandom →  BreezeWiki
Imgur →  Rimgo
Pinterest →  Binternet
Soundcloud →  Tubo
Bandcamp → Tent
Tekstowo → TekstoLibre
Genius → Dumb
Medium →   Scribe, LibMedium
Quora →  Quetre
Github →  Gothub
Gitlab →  Laboratory
Stack Overflow →  AnonymousOverflow
Reuters → Neuters
Snopes → Suds
Urban Dictionary → Rural Dictionary
Goodreads →  BiblioReads
Wolfram Alpha → WolfreeAlpha
Instructables →  Indestructables, Destructables
Wikipedia → Wikiless
Wayback Machine → Wayback Classic
Search → SearXNG, SearX, Whoogle, LibreX, 4get
Translate → SimplyTranslate, Mozhi, LibreTranslate
Google Maps → OpenStreetMap
Meet → Jitsi
Send Files → Send
Paste Text → PrivateBin

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Love the extension, but it's a shame not all the alternate front-ends work. The Reddit ones stopped working a while ago, the fandom one is unreliable, lots of other ones are just a tad too slow.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Not a complete alternative but check out Indie Wiki Buddy extension for independent wikis that are shifting away from Fandom.

mossbag on YouTube has a good video on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

If your hardware supports, you may self-host your favourite privacy frontends (e.g. LibReddit) on docker on your system, and point that extension to your self-hosted privacy frontend servers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

libreddit is the Reddit front end. Reddit did something, it seems they blocked IP addresses. There are ways around it and folks do have some instances, but there's sitll a lot out there that don't work. You can rung your own libreddit and put it through Cloudflare's bridge thing and then point libredirect to your own libreddit for stability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Some instances doesn't work, but reddit frontends work for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The beauty is the extension over alternatives is that it gives you a list of alternatives. Ping them and switch to the quickest loading one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

If libredirect integration is ever going to be added to URLCheck, it's going to be a life-changer.