Privacy Redirect

Redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and more to privacy friendly alternatives.

Privacy Redirect is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your online privacy by redirecting popular social media and content platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram to privacy-friendly alternatives like Nitter, Invidious, Bibliogram, and OpenStreetMap. With the ability to customize instances and toggle redirects on or off, it offers flexibility to suit your browsing preferences.

This extension supports embedded video redirects, and its open-source code is available on GitHub for transparency and community contributions. Recent updates include support for Wikiless, additional translations, and improved instance handling. Privacy Redirect requires permissions to access all navigation events to enable its privacy features effectively. Consider supporting the developer through donations to maintain and improve the project.

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By:: Simon Brazell
Users:: 1,136+ -1
Rating:: 3.50

(2)
Version:: 1.1.49 (Last updated: 2021-07-25)
Creation date:: 2021-07-25
Risk:: High risk impact Very low risk likelihood
Permissions:: storage
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
<all_urls>
Size:: 56.61K
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Edge Add-on Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 4,605 ▼ 9

Other rankings

#8 in privacy keyword 54 ▲ 2

#10 in redirect keyword 53

#30 in iframe keyword 11

#66 in instagram keyword 60 ▼ 2

#70 in no code required keyword 26 ▼ 1

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Privacy Redirect (v1.1.49)

7,000+ 4.00

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Privacy Redirect (v1.1.49)

2,065+ 4.52

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User reviews

Having to update my review as unfortunately the Twitter redirects (basically all I need this for) have all but stopped working. vampire.xyz is a for sale domain, nitter seems to have an issue with it's security certificate and cannot be bypassed by Edge and quite often get tweet or page not found. Shame, great concept.

by Pete, 2024-03-05

Thanks

by Андрей, 2021-09-15

Significantly less useful now that Nitter has shut down. It's not exactly the extension's fault but the primary redirect will no longer load.

by James, 2024-03-29

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Privacy Redirect requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Privacy Redirect has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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