Cynosphere / libredirect

Spite fork of LibRedirect to readd Nitter support, because the devs don't understand how forks work.

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

Migrating config before installing this fork

1. Export settings
2. Open the exported JSON file in a text editor
3. Add the following before the "version" line

"twitter": {
  "enabled": true,
  "redirectType": "main_frame",
  "unsupportedUrls": "bypass",
  "frontend": "nitter",
  "instance": "public"
},
"nitter": [],

4. Uninstall normal version
5. Install fork
6. Import config

Install

Firefox

Note

ESR, Developer Edition, Nightly and forks like LibreWolf or Floorp are the only supported versions that allow permanently loading extensions from zip files.

1. Type in the address bar: about:config
2. Set xpinstall.signatures.required to false
3. Open about:addons
4. Drag and drop zip file downloaded from releases into the tab
5. Click "Add" (you may need to refocus the window)

Chromium

1. Open chrome://extensions
2. Tick "Developer mode"
3. Drag and drop zip file downloaded from releases into the tab

Building the extension

Install Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Cynosphere/libredirect.git
cd libredirect
pnpm i
pnpm build

Then follow install instructions

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LibRedirect originally forked from Privacy Redirect