Overall it works but the problem lies in instances that tend to die-off pretty fast. There were homebrew "hubs" solely providing redirects out of pure kindness to many big sites and services but now it seems it's hard to find one that works without being blocked/rate limited. Big sites and services fight back, which isn't really surprising.

Privacy Redirect was prob the first extension that introduced this idea. It did the job as well but up until bad-actors figured out they can redirect people to their dangerous sites.

time to get rid of the freeloaders with Anubis? https://anubis.techaro.lol/

A web extension is an unnecessary security risk. A userscript will do it just fine.

edit: one of my previous attempt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35229211

I actually have made it extensible, with closely coupled source of rules and domains; but then I lost it Edge forgot all my userscripts :(

Proxigram? I doubt I could run that on Android.

I love this extension

I want the opposite, an extension that will redirect all crappy frontends to the canonical sources (which work better and I am logged-into, I can comment, etc).

Do any of these YouTube extensions retrieve videos in a way which is unassociated with my IP? I’d really rather not get my google account banned, or my searches rate limited. These aren’t happening now, but I believe they will in the future to the point where I actively avoid using any tooling from my home connection, and vps’ seem to be blocked by YouTube already.

How long before browsers disable these kinds of in-user-favor workarounds?

Like Apple removing the "Disable JavaScript" menu option from Safari and moving it into Developer Tools, which can be detected by websites before you can disable JS >:(

X.com works bet with lightbrd.com instead of xcancel with captchas.

Farside extension, 847 stars: https://github.com/benbusby/farside

Using venrable farside.link

https://sr.ht/~benbusby/farside/

https://farside.link/

Why use your offering?