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Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by Bender »

neoCrimeLabs wrote: post #126

This is the extension I use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/redirector/ Not only do I translate x.com -> xcancel.com, but - cnn.com -> text.cnn.com - youtube.com -> inv.nadeko.net - instagram.com -> imginn.com And more. Regular expressions allow translations of paths for the redirection, so it does not just happen at the top level.

That looks rather useful. Do you by chance have an export of your current redirects and if so could you sftp them to

    sftp scratch@scratch.newsdump.org
    cd pub
    put _your_redirect_export.json # or whatever the extension is

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

#153

Post by contravariant »

hexbin010 wrote: post #136
contravariant wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They should really update those links. Could be a coincidence but about half seemed to redirect me to a service that was discontinued or continued under a different name.

Ah I hadn't realised development is falling behind a bit (addon last released 6 months ago, though it's possible it doesn't need updating I guess)

Could just be the webpage to be fair, but it's not a great look.

After trying a few others I do think I was a bit unlucky with my first few tries.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by surplusvalue »

i just set up caddy proxy to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

  {
      local_certs
      order reverse_proxy before file_server
  }
  
  x.com, www.x.com {
      tls internal
      reverse_proxy https://xcancel.com {
          header_up Host xcancel.com
      }
  }
I think I installed my caddy cert on my devices so the browser wouldn't throw a fit, but this works on my mobile devices as well with a dns record to point to this caddy instance (and a wireguard tunnel back home). any improvements to this approach would be appreciated.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

#155

Post by Aissen »

neoCrimeLabs wrote: post #126

This is the extension I use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/redirector/ Not only do I translate x.com -> xcancel.com, but - cnn.com -> text.cnn.com - youtube.com -> inv.nadeko.net - instagram.com -> imginn.com And more. Regular expressions allow translations of paths for the redirection, so it does not just happen at the top level.

It's quite simple but unusable on Firefox Mobile :-/ (Cannot edit Sites).

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

#157

Post by lelanthran »

kzrdude wrote: post #45
self_awareness wrote: post #3

This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

The idea that we can independently decide what to ignore in life is a fallacy I think. Not read regularly sure, but we need to know what's written on X in some cases when it could be important for news or politics.

> we need to know what's written on X in some cases when it could be important for news or politics.

If it's that important, you'll see it elsewhere in no time at all.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by geo255 »

Aissen wrote: post #155
neoCrimeLabs wrote: post #126

This is the extension I use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/redirector/ Not only do I translate x.com -> xcancel.com, but - cnn.com -> text.cnn.com - youtube.com -> inv.nadeko.net - instagram.com -> imginn.com And more. Regular expressions allow translations of paths for the redirection, so it does not just happen at the top level.

It's quite simple but unusable on Firefox Mobile :-/ (Cannot edit Sites).

You actually can edit your redirects in Firefox Mobile (at least it works in Nightly). There is a focus bug in the Edit Redirects popup.

Tap the Edit Reditects button. Nothing seems to happen, but then tap the back-arrow at the top. Go to your Firefox tab switcher, and you should now see a "REDIRECTOR" tab. This is the editor.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

#160

Post by wolvoleo »

allthetime wrote: post #40
wolvoleo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately the alternatives aren't much better. Bluesky now does the same BS where they demand an account if you just want to read replies to a tweet or whatever they call that at bluesky. And there is no bskycancel.com yet.

No they don’t. That is an opt-in setting that a user can put on their profile to only have logged in users see their content. The default is open viewing.

Ah ok, I don't use bsky much but I got linked there on another HN post. I could see that but when I clicked on replies I got a login prompt just like twitter.

I normally use nostr more because that really is decentralised. Also mastodon. Though I don't like the short message twitter style blogs anyway. So Lemmy really is my favourite (too bad about all the tankies though)

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