Old Reddit Redirect

Ensure Reddit always loads the old design

What is Old Reddit Redirect?

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

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Users: 100,000+

Rating: 4.76 (300)

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

# 2154 ▼ 2

Other rankings

#1067 in Accessibility ▲ 1 #2 in reddit keyword 46 #19 in redirect keyword 53 ▼ 4

Other platforms

Old Reddit Redirect (v1.8.2)

4.74

(266) 61,064+

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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 and effectively redirects to old Reddit.
Allows for better user experience compared to the new Reddit interface.
Vital for using Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) features.
Fast loading times and functionality in incognito mode.
Developer responds quickly to issues.

Cons

Has stopped working or has issues since recent Reddit updates.
Redirect issues when accessing certain subreddit URLs.
Users report new interface login problems affecting functionality.
More frequent breaks and diminished performance noted over time.

Most mentioned

Recent Reddit changes have broken the extension's functionality.
Users prefer old Reddit over the clunky new interface.
Extension vital for accessing RES features like filtering subreddits.

Recent reviews

A.P., 2024-10-12

works perfectly! Thanks!

Anjas, 2024-10-05

Review edit: Reddit has broken the use case below and has nothing to do with the extension itself. This extension seems to have partially broken as of October 2nd, 2024. It will still redirect to old.reddit.com but when attempting to navigate directly to a subreddit with a url in the format of "news.reddit.com", instead of redirecting to "old.reddit.com/r/news" it redirects to the user's home page of "old.reddit.com" and fails to navigate to the subreddit. I was going to open a pull request on the git page for the extension but it looks like the backend engineers over at reddit might've broken something. These urls are now returning 301 MOVED PERMANENTLY.