# LibRedirect

35 Hacker News commenters recommended LibRedirect and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Redirects links from YouTube, Reddit, X and others to privacy-friendly frontends, with your choice of instance. Caveat: it doesn't check that instances are up.

## Why people recommend it

- Redirects many popular sites automatically (6 comments): "A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218428)) "a browser extension that automatically redirects reddit.com URLs to your Redlib instance of choice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072539)) "It doesn't just work for Twitter/X, but also Reddit, Tiktok, Youtube, and many others" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580048))
- Privacy-friendly frontends instead of originals (3 comments): "A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218428)) "I quit visiting reddit, twitter, instagram, youtube in favor of frontends and libredirect" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771075)) "Check out LibRedirect or Predirect (MV3)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48800176))
- Choice of working instances (4 comments): "One stop shop and supports any custom alt front-end you want for any website you want." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581583)) "will transparently redirect you to a working one or one of your choice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694555)) "this will happen automatically (to a server that is actually working)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694746))
- Works out of the box (3 comments): "makes these easy to use without conscious thought" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443161)) "to make it more convenient to use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940598)) "it mostly works out of the box" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715229))

## What people warn about

- Doesn't check if instances are up (1 comments): "lets you configure a list and quickly hot between, but it doesn't check whether they are up before redirecting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574516))
- Doesn't fully solve the problem (1 comments): "kind of does so, it's not 100% there yet" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574509))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "LibRedirect", https://hackerapproved.com/p/libredirect/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).