[HN Gopher] Redirector - Browser extension to redirect to privac...
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Redirector - Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting
front-ends
Author : robertheadley
Score : 26 points
Date : 2021-12-23 19:18 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| zarfzarf wrote:
| I like to see browser extensions being used for good (security
| and privacy) even if they must be side-loaded, its a powerful and
| under used technology.
| wolverine876 wrote:
| I much prefer the alternate front ends, but how long will the
| services tolerate them? Why do they tolerate them so far?
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| I expect that the services could easily overwhelm the alternate
| front ends with technical incompatabilities and expensive legal
| problems (whether or not the services have winning cases, they
| can make it expensive).
| erikpl wrote:
| While I love the premise, it should do a better job of keeping
| track of active and secure instances of the different services.
| I've had a lot of trouble with broken redirects.
| nathcd wrote:
| This is the one extension I was really bummed to lose on Firefox
| for Android with the update last year where they started limiting
| installable extensions to a hand-selected group.
| avadiax wrote:
| I used to use Redirector ... until my need changes and needed
| fine-grain control over what to redirect. And then I saw Request
| Control.
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| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/requestcontro...
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| Why I replaced Redirector with Request Control is because of its
| much more powerful features such as match by different document
| types (script, image, media, etc), its in-built variable (such as
| {protocol}, {hostname}, {pathname}) and origin type (same origin,
| same domain, third party domain, etc).
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| However, if your need is simple, my advice is to use Redirector
| instead because it is really easy to understand and use. For
| power users, check out Request Control.
| csydas wrote:
| 200% recommend this tool. It has saved my workflow for tons of
| day to day interactions inside the Microsoft/Google/Salesforce
| ecosystem.
|
| I use it daily as Microsoft's handling of sharepoint links is
| always a mystery and tries to load in the non-sense in-browser
| Sharepoint/OneDrive viewer, and it's really bad; so slow for
| everything, when it _can_ load the document the built-in viewer
| is filled with so much garbage the actual content is super
| restricted; when it can't load the content, it spends a good
| couple of seconds trying to load it just to tell you it can't
| display it and to generate a new download dialogue which takes
| another couple of seconds; all for which should just be a
| download link. This plugin solves that instantly.
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| Same methods with Google to force sane behavior (e.g., actual
| download links instead of built in google apps that are slow
| except for Chrome), same for Salesforce which tries to push its
| Lightning experience which is completely unoptimized for anything
| as best I can tell (and you're just screwed if you're not in a
| country that hosts a Salesforce instance, the latency on every
| load is 150 ms+, and lightning increases this even further with
| even more calls).
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| Redirector saves me so many minor frustrations every single day I
| cannot thank the author enough. Once you start to think about it
| less as a general privacy tool and more how to skip a bunch of
| hoops and load specific content exactly where you want, the power
| of this tool becomes apparent.
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| I even wrote the author once to thank them and got a response
| fairly fast as well as a brief comment on their surprise how
| "big" the tool got.
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| It's a great tool if you have to battle with awful online
| ecosystems and it helps you gain a bit of control again with a
| bit of curiosity and exploration.
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