LibRedirect
Hacker ApprovedRanked 9 of 70 browser extensions by recommenders
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.
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.
37 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 35
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 95%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 35 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 18 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Redirects many popular sites automatically
“A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.”
Comment from 24 Oct 2026 in “Shitter – A Nitter Fork” “a browser extension that automatically redirects reddit.com URLs to your Redlib instance of choice”
Comment from 27 Jul 2026 in “VLC for Unity now supported on Linux” “It doesn't just work for Twitter/X, but also Reddit, Tiktok, Youtube, and many others”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns” - Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex”
- Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice”
- Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices”
Privacy-friendly frontends instead of originals
“A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.”
Comment from 24 Oct 2026 in “Shitter – A Nitter Fork” “I quit visiting reddit, twitter, instagram, youtube in favor of frontends and libredirect”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney” “Check out LibRedirect or Predirect (MV3)”
Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex” Choice of working instances
“One stop shop and supports any custom alt front-end you want for any website you want.”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns” “will transparently redirect you to a working one or one of your choice”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “XCancel service is suspended until further notice” “this will happen automatically (to a server that is actually working)”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “XCancel service is suspended until further notice” - Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice”
Works out of the box
“makes these easy to use without conscious thought”
Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices” “to make it more convenient to use”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “X Is Down - edit - was down” “it mostly works out of the box”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Doesn't check if instances are up
“lets you configure a list and quickly hot between, but it doesn't check whether they are up before redirecting”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns” Doesn't fully solve the problem
“kind of does so, it's not 100% there yet”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns”
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| Claude in Chrome | 53 | 42 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| LibRedirectThis page | 35 | 2 | 95% | 10 | — | Approved |
What people said
40 of the 57 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.”
“it's convenient to have Libredirect installed and then it takes you to Nitter instead so you can actually read it”
“you can get an actually sane twitter-browsing experience”
“Libredirect does exactly that”
“this will happen automatically (to a server that is actually working)”
“will transparently redirect you to a working one or one of your choice”
“supports 20+ different sites and free choice of instance”
“One stop shop and supports any custom alt front-end you want for any website you want.”
“It doesn't just work for Twitter/X, but also Reddit, Tiktok, Youtube, and many others”
“the LibRedirect extension does most of that already”
“lets you configure a list and quickly hot between, but it doesn't check whether they are up before redirecting”
“kind of does so, it's not 100% there yet”
“you can with liberedirect or ublock origin and firefox for android”
“I generally look at what LibRedirect has as options”
“makes these easy to use without conscious thought”
“automatically redirects you when you click a link”
“libredirect is very good for these kinda of things”
“I work around it with LibRedirect”
“LibRedirect is useful for this (and other sites) too if you want it to apply over the whole browser.”
“It can configure redirects to alternate "frontends" that will serve you much more agreeable HTML”
“a browser extension that automatically redirects reddit.com URLs to your Redlib instance of choice”
“allows you to easily set up proxies for any site”
“It provides a list of public alternative frontends for a lot of sites”
“automatically redirects youtube, X, etc links to privacy-respecting frontends”
“Check out LibRedirect or Predirect (MV3)”
“I rely on public instances on the list [1] and libredirect [2]”
“A tool that can help with this is LibRedirect”
“automatically can redirect to nitter”
“i did it by deleting my account and using libredirect for invidious”
“because it blocks the network connections and is convenient”
“to make it more convenient to use”
“I quit visiting reddit, twitter, instagram, youtube in favor of frontends and libredirect”
“my workaround was -libredirect extension”
“it mostly works out of the box”
“If you don't want to open X links you can use something like Libredirect to make sure all such links go through a proxy, this is what I do.”
“there are ways to bring less traffic/ad views to that content while allowing some ability to consume”
“There is Libredirect which does the same and more”
“Libredirect will do for tons of domains.”
“LibRedirect will do it for several websites.”
“It is amazing how much useless guff can be cut away from these while improving the user experience”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.