# Privacy Redirector

> Automatically redirects YouTube to Piped and Reddit to custom instances with privacy-focused history management.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/privacy-redirector](https://chrome-stats.com/d/privacy-redirector)

## Overview

- **ID:** `privacy-redirector`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** bennett
- **Category:** privacy-security,search-tools,tabs
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-06
- **First published:** 2025-08-03
- **Size:** 13 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/privacy-redirector/)

## Description

Privacy Redirector is a powerful Firefox add-on that automatically redirects selected websites to privacy-friendlier alternatives. It ensures your online browsing experience is more secure and private, by redirecting you to websites that uphold strong privacy practices.

## Rankings

- #140,025 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `history`
- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `*://youtube.com/*`
- `*://www.youtube.com/*`
- `*://youtu.be/*`
- `*://m.youtube.com/*`
- `*://reddit.com/*`
- `*://www.reddit.com/*`
- `*://old.reddit.com/*`
- `*://new.reddit.com/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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- [Youtube -\> Piped redirect (minimal permissions)](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-piped-redirect) — 8 users, 5.00 / 5
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- [Piped Redirects](https://chrome-stats.com/d/piped-redirects) — 7 users, 4.82 / 5
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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/privacy-redirector)