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Wanted to share the libredirect Firefox plugin, for abandoning Youtube. (libredirect.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a plugin I found recently and really enjoy. It gives you the opportunity to redirect several webpages to alternatives. For example Youtube to FreeTube or Piped. If I search for youtube in Firefox, FreeTube automatically opens and shows me my feed. I like it, I use it, I can recommend it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's open source, you can ask the author and other users about it too (if you can't read the code yourself)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh, I'm confident(-ish) in my ability to review the code, but as I understand it I have no way to guarantee that the code that's on github is the code that AMO installs. Plus updates are automatic, so I have no way to ensure that something malicious won't be added anyway.

[–] Sheik 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can build it yourself from source then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can only do that with Firefox Developer, can't you? And IIRC, they self uninstall after a week or something, don't they?

[–] Sheik 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can either install it unsigned with Firefox Developer Edition and it will be permanent. Or you can sign it yourself (you don’t need to publish it on AMO): https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-and-distribution-overview/ and it will work on regular Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think you can still build the extension package and upload it yourself