# Nitter Redirect

> Redirects Twitter requests to Nitter, the privacy friendly alternative.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/nitter-redirect](https://chrome-stats.com/d/nitter-redirect)

## Overview

- **ID:** `nitter-redirect`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Simon Brazell
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 1,428
- **Weekly downloads:** 34
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (45 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1.5
- **Last updated:** 2020-07-26
- **First published:** 2019-09-14
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nitter-redirect/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/SimonBrazell/nitter-redirect](https://github.com/SimonBrazell/nitter-redirect)

## Description

Nitter Redirect is a Chrome extension that enhances your Twitter browsing privacy by automatically redirecting Twitter URLs to Nitter, a privacy-friendly alternative. It listens exclusively to requests made to various Twitter domains including twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com, pbs.twimg.com, and video.twimg.com, redirecting them to specified Nitter instances.

Users can customize which Nitter instance to use and easily toggle redirection on or off. The extension requires no unnecessary permissions, ensuring security and trustworthiness. Its open-source code is hosted on GitHub, encouraging transparency and community contributions. With recent updates, it now correctly handles redirections for Twitter URLs containing `/tweets`. Support the project through donations if you find it useful.

## Rankings

- #2,742 — Overall
- #6 — redirect
- #15 — direct link
- #44 — appreciate
- #114 — request
- #162 — twitter

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `*://twitter.com/*`
- `*://www.twitter.com/*`
- `*://mobile.twitter.com/*`
- `*://pbs.twimg.com/*`
- `*://video.twimg.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `twitter.com`
- `www.twitter.com`
- `mobile.twitter.com`
- `pbs.twimg.com`
- `video.twimg.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Pros: no-setup use, works for Twitter links, helpful as a fallback after LibRedirect changes, and lightweight code. Cons: reliability problems with ongoing failures, broken x.com redirects, lack of maintenance and unresponsiveness, and security/SSL warnings when reaching nitter.net. Overall, reviews are mixed: some like the no-config operation, but many report broken redirects, maintenance concerns, and security warnings.

### Pros

- No setup required; works with no config or sign-ins.
- Works for Twitter (twitter.com) links.
- Useful as an alternative when LibRedirect removed Nitter.
- Lightweight, minimalist code.

### Cons

- Reliability issues; often stops working or does not work.
- X.com/Twitter redirects fail or do nothing.
- Not maintained / developer unresponsive; outdated.
- Security/SSL warnings when connecting to nitter.net.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/nitter-redirect)