Since my comment in the thread that was discussing extensions and mentioned Libredirect was marked as off-topic I think I have no choice other than create a new post, hopefully it won’t be merged to that other thread which would be hilarious.
I know that we are pretty much not a big fan of extensions in our browsers, but I challenge who doesn’t have at least one more than ublock. Well this is not the reason for the post here. Anyways, the question here is about Libredirect, this extension seems quite helpful to avoid clicking in an Youtube link and inadvertently opening Youtube instead of a more privacy video stream frontend option. It can also be used with Reddit and some other tools. Shouldn’t we maybe discuss this feature and its benefits?
Edit: typo in the first sentence. “thread” not “threat”. I’m not threatening anyone.
I use it, it’s good. But, it requires full permissions to all websites.
I have decided to trust them with this, you should decide for yourself
It should be said that a extension in a web browser even with wide permissions is still much less dangerous than a program running natively and unsandboxed in a desktop
There is a MV3 extension named Predirect - Extension to replace popular sites with privacy front ends that does the same things. The interface is a bit bare bome, and doesn’t have the “Auto-pick instance” feature, but otherwise works.
I personally use LibRedirect but we should not recommend it. This is because they ask for the broad “Read & modify data on ALL websites” permission, while they could just ask it for the frontends and the website they need to redirect.
This is doable, and is done by another MV2 extension that needs to modify data of about 1K website.
