Old Reddit Redirect

Ensure Reddit always loads the old design

Old Reddit Redirect - Chrome Extension

Old Reddit Redirect is a free and open source Chrome extension that forces all reddit.com links to old.reddit.com, including navigating to the site, opening links or using old bookmarks. It also includes minor quality of life improvements such as removing the cookie banner and preventing reddit from rendering raw image URLs as HTML.

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Extension stats

By: tomjwatson

Users: 100,000+

Rating: 4.76

(302)

Version: 2.0.1 (Last updated: 2024-08-26)

Creation date: 2020-03-10

Risk impact: Very high risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

Host permissions:

*://reddit.com/*
*://www.reddit.com/*
*://np.reddit.com/*
*://amp.reddit.com/*
*://i.reddit.com/*
*://i.redd.it/*
*://preview.redd.it/*

Size: 16.30K

Email: ch*****@tomjwatson.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 1,945 ▲ 39

Other rankings

#1067 in Accessibility ▲ 1 #2 in reddit keyword 46 #18 in redirect keyword 53

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Extension summary

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ℹ️ If you're wondering why the chrome extension recently requested new permissions, please see https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issues/117.

Dislike Reddit's redesign? Old Reddit Redirect will ensure that you always load the old (old.reddit.com) design instead.

Forces all reddit.com links to old.reddit.com, including navigating to the site, opening links or using old bookmarks.

Unlike the account setting for turning off the design, this works regardless of whether you are logged in or not or in incognito mode.

There are also a few minor quality of life improvements:

Remove the undismissable cookie banner
Prevent reddit from rendering raw image URLs as HTML
Rewrite links to galleries to the raw old reddit comments page

Old Reddit Redirect is free and open source software. The code is available at https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect. Pull requests are more than welcome.

User reviews

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Pros

Works perfectly for redirecting to the old Reddit layout
Allows the use of Reddit Enhancement Suite and various other features
Functions even in incognito mode
Simple and elegant design

Cons

Recently stopped working due to Reddit's new interface changes
Issues with redirecting to specific subreddits
Requires reloading pages to redirect in some cases

Most mentioned

Reddit's new design is unpopular and cluttered
Extension's functionality often depends on Reddit's backend changes
High user appreciation for the old Reddit experience

User reviews

I like it when it works. But it has a semi-frequent bug of sometimes getting stuck where it will show you a subreddit/post as not logged in, then you try to click log-in and reddit will say "you are already logged in, redirecting you" and then shows the page again, still as not logged in - then the cycle just repeats until you visit some other subreddit or something when it finally shows you a page with you logged in, IDK I haven't fully figured it out. But I am going to go looking for another old reddit plugin because I've been annoyed by this bug 100 too many times