[HN Gopher] Libredirect - Redirect social media and websites to ...
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Libredirect - Redirect social media and websites to privacy
friendly front ends
Author : ecliptik
Score : 47 points
Date : 2022-07-30 17:44 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (libredirect.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (libredirect.github.io)
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| I'd be suspicious having to install any extension using developer
| mode. Does this limit itself to reading data on those specific
| sites, or does it want access to everything?
|
| Note it is not available in either the Microsoft store or Chrome
| extension store.
| fuckcensorship wrote:
| I've tried using sites like Nitter and Teddit but always give up
| due to the sporadically crippling performance issues. I've tried
| using different instances but any improvements seemed to be
| temporary. My guess is that most of the performance issues are
| from Twitter/Reddit. Is this true or am I just having back luck
| with the instances I choose?
| Nextgrid wrote:
| The problem with public instances is that they're constantly
| overloaded. Your best bet is to run your own.
| orblivion wrote:
| Which is what I figured is the point, since it's libre. On
| the other hand doesn't that defeat the purpose of the privacy
| thing? If every request for ~one user's worth of traffic is
| coming from one proxy you can sort of identify one person
| that way.
| Nextgrid wrote:
| > On the other hand doesn't that defeat the purpose of the
| privacy thing?
|
| It depends - a lot of the privacy invasions go beyond just
| the IP address and also include browser fingerprints and
| on-page activity collected by malicious Javascript - these
| third-party frontends defeat that.
| 3np wrote:
| All (most?) of them also trivially supports using a proxy
| so you can selectively route them through Tor or some
| other proxy or VPN.
| ecliptik wrote:
| I started running my own this week because the public
| instances are inconsistent.
|
| Performance is better overall, but some things are still
| sluggish (teddit) because you're usually the only fetching
| data and nothing is cached.
|
| Paired with Tailscale makes for a good combination too.
| 3np wrote:
| Teddit specifically has this unfortunate behavior where
| every referenced subresource is loaded before a response is
| returned: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/issues/248
|
| Until that is resolved, libreddit (similarly self-hostable)
| performs much better.
| i67vw3 wrote:
| If you are using random instances run by hobbyist it will
| happen. Such instances come and go every week.
|
| Try to use proper instances from projects like kavin.rocks,
| pussthecat, esmailelbob.xyz, bus-hit.me, vern.cc, tokhomi.xyz
| etc.
|
| For eg., try https://nitter.kavin.rocks. It is one of the
| fastest instance and also hosts its CDN on Cloudflare.
| fuckcensorship wrote:
| This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
| agluszak wrote:
| My experience is that Nitter is faster than the official
| Twitter frontend
| Semaphor wrote:
| The same for Android: UntrackMe
| https://framagit.org/tom79/nitterizeme
| keb_ wrote:
| This is a great idea, and I like that there are more projects
| inspired by the great Nitter.
|
| If you're not down with installing a custom extension just for
| this, you can always create a really simple userscript if you
| already have GreaseMonkey/Violentmonkey/Tampermonkey. Mine looks
| kinda like this:
|
| https://gist.github.com/keb/6e2c9a9b17c1d5b7119cd6e2e6072247
|
| You just need to add a `@match` to the userscript frontmatter,
| and then add the redirect to the redirects map.
| betwixthewires wrote:
| There's a browser extension for Firefox and chromium that can
| allow you to create redirects using wildcards or regex, it's
| called Redirector and it is awesome.
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