Doesn’t libredirect already do this? Though I don’t use it for YouTube so I can’t say for sure
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#13On Android you can try NewPipe which serves as an alternate front end.
Can anyone recommend a NewPipe style desktop app?
FreeTupe [1] would be the closest thing you can have.
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#14I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit or old.reddit, Google Maps to openstreetmap and other stuff. Redirects can be enabled/disabled to ones taste. That's quite neat. Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving compute…
Are nitter instances still working? I was under the impression that project died when Elon curtailed api access.
Yep, nitter still works.
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#15I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit or old.reddit, Google Maps to openstreetmap and other stuff. Redirects can be enabled/disabled to ones taste. That's quite neat. Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving compute…
Are nitter instances still working? I was under the impression that project died when Elon curtailed api access.
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#16What does this do differently to Privacy Redirect? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
This addon seems not to be updated in years. I would like to mention LibRedirect [1] which offers more front ends for more websites and seems more actively developed [2] [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/libredirect [2] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
+1 for libredirect
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#17Can Peertube mirror a list of YouTube channels? And could this then open that Peertube instance?
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#18I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit or old.reddit, Google Maps to openstreetmap and other stuff. Redirects can be enabled/disabled to ones taste. That's quite neat. Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving compute…
Thanks for sharing your setup, might look into that.
In my case, the reason I decided to create the extension is that I didn't want to completely leave YT per se, but rather use the recommendations and browse the homepage and actually watch what I want on an alternative frontend.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
This addon seems not to be updated in years. I would like to mention LibRedirect [1] which offers more front ends for more websites and seems more actively developed [2] [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/libredirect [2] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
+1 for libredirect
I also use libredirect but it has this annoying bug where the reddit redirect will randomly stop working and the only way to solve it is to completely uninstall the extension (not only disabling) then reinstall.
But I can’t stand anymore to be on Twitter or Medium so it is a must. I also use it for Youtube, stackoverflow.
I’m a bit confused by the current project because there are litteraly tenths of Youtube->invidious/alternative frontend and I don’t understand why this one is different.
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#20Seems like there's a bit of confusion about what the add-on does exactly. It doesn't automatically redirect all YouTube pages you open.
This however gives you the choice to open the pages you want in an alternative frontend.
My use case is basically I browse the YT homepage and Shift+click the videos I want to watch. Or if someone shares a link to a video, I access that page and Alt+J to redirect to the alternative frontend.