Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends

While I love the premise, it should do a better job of keeping track of active and secure instances of the different services. I've had a lot of trouble with broken redirects.

200% recommend this tool. It has saved my workflow for tons of day to day interactions inside the Microsoft/Google/Salesforce ecosystem.

I use it daily as Microsoft's handling of sharepoint links is always a mystery and tries to load in the non-sense in-browser Sharepoint/OneDrive viewer, and it's really bad; so slow for everything, when it _can_ load the document the built-in viewer is filled with so much garbage the actual content is super restricted; when it can't load the content, it spends a good couple of seconds trying to load it just to tell you it can't display it and to generate a new download dialogue which takes another couple of seconds; all for which should just be a download link. This plugin solves that instantly.

Same methods with Google to force sane behavior (e.g., actual download links instead of built in google apps that are slow except for Chrome), same for Salesforce which tries to push its Lightning experience which is completely unoptimized for anything as best I can tell (and you're just screwed if you're not in a country that hosts a Salesforce instance, the latency on every load is 150 ms+, and lightning increases this even further with even more calls).

Redirector saves me so many minor frustrations every single day I cannot thank the author enough. Once you start to think about it less as a general privacy tool and more how to skip a bunch of hoops and load specific content exactly where you want, the power of this tool becomes apparent.

I even wrote the author once to thank them and got a response fairly fast as well as a brief comment on their surprise how "big" the tool got.

It's a great tool if you have to battle with awful online ecosystems and it helps you gain a bit of control again with a bit of curiosity and exploration.

This is the one extension I was really bummed to lose on Firefox for Android with the update last year where they started limiting installable extensions to a hand-selected group.

I sympathize with that problem, but I think Redirector may not be the right tool for that job. Redirector is pretty small and flexible - I imagine pinging servers and rotating hosts in a redirect is out of scope. Have you tried a more full-featured privacy service redirector? Google brought up https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect.

Doesn't work for Firefox mobile