libredirect/browser_extension

libredirect/browser_extension has 4,110 GitHub stars and 150 forks. GitHot measured -1 stars in 24 hours and +1 in 7 days. Last checked 2026-11-12 10:28 UTC. Last push 2026-10-31.

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

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A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and other requests to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.

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Development

Install Node.js and pnpm.

[!NOTE]

Do not test in your work environment. Create a new profile for testing or download a separate browser.

git clone https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension && cd browser_extension
pnpm install
# Generates HTML using Pug
pnpm run html

Firefox

# Run Firefox with the extension
pnpm run start

# Build a zip package for Firefox
pnpm run build

Install the zip package on Firefox (temporarily)

Type about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox in the address bar.
Click Load Temporary Add-on....
Select libredirect-VERSION.zip from the web-ext-artifacts/ folder.

Install the zip package on Firefox ESR, Developer Edition, Nightly

Type about:config in the address bar.
Set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.
Type about:addons in the address bar.
Click the gear-shaped settings button and select Install Add-on From File....
Select libredirect-VERSION.zip from the web-ext-artifacts/ folder.

Chromium

Open chrome://extensions.
Enable Developer mode.
Click Load unpacked.
Select the src/ folder.

Test

See TEST.md.

Privacy Policy

Nothing is collected.
All URL redirections work locally, except for OpenStreetMap reverse geocoding, which is done via the OSM Nominatim API.
By default, the list of instances is fetched from GitHub. Alternatively, it may be fetched from Codeberg or not at all.

Notes

Forked from Privacy Redirect.