browser_extension/README.md

LibRedirect

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

Youtube => Piped, Invidious, FreeTube
Twitter => Nitter
Instagram => Bibliogram
TikTok => ProxiTok
Imgur => Rimgo
Reddit => Libreddit, Teddit, Old Reddit, Mobile Reddit
Search => SearX, Whoogle
Translate => SimplyTranslate, LingvaTranslate
Maps => OpenStreetMap
Wikipedia => Wikiless
Medium => Scribe

Note: It will default to using random instances if none are selected. You can also set custom instances.

Get

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Development

Install Dependencies

• Node.js latest LTS is recommended
• npm update
• npm install

Build

• npm run build

Test

• npm run test

Test in Firefox

• npm run-script start

Install temporarily

• open about:addons
• click on the settings button below the addon search bar and select debug add-on
• press load temporarily addon

Install in Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release), Developer Edition and Nightly

• open about:config
• set xpinstall.signatures.required to false
• open about:addons
• click on the settings button below the addon search bar and select install add-on from file
• select libredirect-VERSION.zip from 'web-ext-artifacts' folder

Install in Chromium, Brave and Chrome

• open chrome://extensions
• enable dev mode
• select load unpacked extension
• select src folder

Credits

• Privacy Redirect