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I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitte

by jraph 3y ago

I'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 computers I control. May your own extension succeed too. I guess building it and releasing it are already two successes on their own.

kingTug 3y ago
Are nitter instances still working? I was under the impression that project died when Elon curtailed api access.
- askiiart 3y ago
  Yep, nitter still works.
  - mirashii 3y ago
    Although not out of the box right now, it requires running some external scripts to grab guest accounts and running a build off a branch or fork. See https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
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- petemir 3y ago
  They keep working with a workaround, by using guest tokens handed out to the Android application. So, until they change the functioning of the app, it will keep working.
- Modified3019 3y ago
  I used the official nitter.net instance successfully just yesterday, at least with the limited functionality I cared about. It’s likely to come and go as they fight an arms race.
- koito17 3y ago
  You're probably thinking of libreddit, which indeed shut down when Reddit's API access was shut off. Now most libreddit instances out there either return a 429 error or simply don't exist anymore. Nitter on the other hand has been doing fine on my end. Instances with heavy traffic, such as nitter.net, do frequently run into rate limiting errors. But if you use relatively more obscure instances, then almost nothing has changed.
- SanjayMehta 3y ago
  nitter.cz is still working complete with RSS support. nitter.nl/net work, but without RSS. Many of the other instances have become unreliable.
d3vr 3y ago
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.
- TaylorAlexander 3y ago
  Is it able to feed user interactions back to YouTube? I want to like and comment on videos I like.
saxonww 3y ago
Yeah it's a shame these aren't available for Firefox Mobile. At least one of the redirect plugins would be nice.
- jraph 3y ago
  I remember reading that firefox mobile is going to allow all extensions? Or maybe it's the case of the version coming from F-Droid?
- citruscomputing 3y ago
  There is a hacky workaround you can do to add any extension to ff mobile, it involves making a personal collection: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
gear54rus 3y ago
While we're on the topic of unfucking youtube, do you know how I can turn shorts crappy player without controls into something that I can rewind? Sound volume controls would be nice too.
- jraph 3y ago
  Invidious uses its regular player for shorts.
- jellyblade 3y ago
  If you're watching on desktop, you can change the youtube video's url path from /shorts/video to youtube's usual ?watch=video and have it play in youtube's regular player. You can also just have an extension do this for you, which is what I do.
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by jraph 3y ago

kingTug 3y ago

Are nitter instances still working? I was under the impression that project died when Elon curtailed api access.

askiiart 3y ago
Yep, nitter still works.
- mirashii 3y ago
  Although not out of the box right now, it requires running some external scripts to grab guest accounts and running a build off a branch or fork. See https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
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petemir 3y ago
They keep working with a workaround, by using guest tokens handed out to the Android application. So, until they change the functioning of the app, it will keep working.
Modified3019 3y ago
I used the official nitter.net instance successfully just yesterday, at least with the limited functionality I cared about. It’s likely to come and go as they fight an arms race.
koito17 3y ago
You're probably thinking of libreddit, which indeed shut down when Reddit's API access was shut off. Now most libreddit instances out there either return a 429 error or simply don't exist anymore. Nitter on the other hand has been doing fine on my end. Instances with heavy traffic, such as nitter.net, do frequently run into rate limiting errors. But if you use relatively more obscure instances, then almost nothing has changed.
SanjayMehta 3y ago
nitter.cz is still working complete with RSS support. nitter.nl/net work, but without RSS. Many of the other instances have become unreliable.

d3vr 3y ago

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.

TaylorAlexander 3y ago
Is it able to feed user interactions back to YouTube? I want to like and comment on videos I like.

saxonww 3y ago

Yeah it's a shame these aren't available for Firefox Mobile. At least one of the redirect plugins would be nice.

jraph 3y ago
I remember reading that firefox mobile is going to allow all extensions? Or maybe it's the case of the version coming from F-Droid?
citruscomputing 3y ago
There is a hacky workaround you can do to add any extension to ff mobile, it involves making a personal collection: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

gear54rus 3y ago

While we're on the topic of unfucking youtube, do you know how I can turn shorts crappy player without controls into something that I can rewind? Sound volume controls would be nice too.

jraph 3y ago
Invidious uses its regular player for shorts.
jellyblade 3y ago
If you're watching on desktop, you can change the youtube video's url path from /shorts/video to youtube's usual ?watch=video and have it play in youtube's regular player. You can also just have an extension do this for you, which is what I do.

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