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Automatically redirects requests from popular websites to alternative and privacy friendly frontends. Uses random instances by default. You can modify this and add custom instances too.

Supports: YouTube, YouTube Music, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, reddit, imgur, Wikipedia, Medium, Quora, IMDb, PeerTube, LBRY/Odysee, Search, Translate, Maps and Send Files.

Our take

The catch is reliability, not concept: it only helps as long as the public frontend instances it points you to are actually up, and those wink in and out constantly. Treat it as a convenience layer that quietly reroutes you off the big platforms when it can, not as a guarantee. People who already run their own instances or don’t mind the occasional dead redirect will love it; anyone wanting set-and-forget will get annoyed.

GitHub at a glance
libredirect/browser_extension
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License
GPL-3.0
Latest release
v3.3.0
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LibRedirect license, in plain English
GPL-3.0
Strong copyleft

Free to use and modify, but anything you distribute that is built on it must also be open under the same license.

Permits

  • Commercial use
  • Modification
  • Distribution
  • Patent use
  • Private use

Requires

  • Disclose source
  • Same license
  • State changes
  • License and copyright notice

Does not provide

  • Liability cover
  • Warranty

Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.

Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.