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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By: tomjwatson

Users: 100,000+

Rating: 4.75

(304)

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

# 2,134 ▼ 47

Other rankings

#1062 in Accessibility #2 in reddit keyword 46 #19 in redirect keyword 53 ▼ 2

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Old Reddit Redirect (v1.8.2)

4.75

(270) 63,428+

Not available on Edge

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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 as intended for redirecting to old Reddit interface
Simple and user-friendly
Open source and free to use
Responsive developer support
Allows use of Reddit Enhancement Suite features

Cons

Frequent bugs causing login issues
Stopped working after recent Reddit updates
Issues with redirecting to specific subreddits
Requires manual page reloads to function
New user interface changes from Reddit cause compatibility problems

Most mentioned

Login issues when redirecting back to old Reddit
Functionality breaking due to Reddit's changes
Extension is essential for a better Reddit experience
Compliments on the developer's responsiveness and support
Praise for the simplicity and effectiveness of the extension

User reviews

When i tried to go onto reddit i got signed out, and when i signed it said my password was wrong. was this extension hacked or something?

Nestopia UE, 2024-12-28

Thanks, for some reason Reddit stopped honoring my preference to opt out of the redesign, this extension works and is FOSS and simple, and gets rid of that massive "get new Reddit" button that fools me about once a week.

Riverina Remedies, 2024-12-28

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