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Comment by skeltoac | Hacker News Reader

Off topic. Scrolled a little bit past the thread and almost got caught up in Twitter’s hate bait algorithm. Sexual imagery and I didn’t ask for. This is why I need to remember never to follow links to Twitter, no matter what, ever.

One of the hazards of browsing HN: old darlings like Twitter will be tolerated even after they become NSFW by default.

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There is an open-source browser extension called Privacy Redirect which will turn all Twitter links you click into Nitter links [0].

This also turns Reddit links into Libreddit/Teddit links, YouTube links into Invidious links, etc.

Basically you get to browse an Internet without intrusive pre-roll ads or outrage algorithms. I think based on your comment that this might be of interest to you.

[0]: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect/

I'd recommend to have a look at https://github.com/libredirect/ as it gets actively developed and has more sites and features.

Thanks. I've tried it out of curiosity after reading your comment, and found Libredirect extremely confusing and frustrating :

- it rewrites URLs in content that I write, so when I posted a HN story about a youtube video, it changed the URL to some random Invidious instance

- its icon is not shown in the extension list in Firefox, so I never know whether it's on or not

- it seems to not work on Youtube anymore after I disabled it temporarily, despite the toggle being back on

- to change the config, I can't just click the icon (like I would in, say uBlock Origin or even Privacy Redirect), no, I need to go to Extensions > Libredirect > Click the three dots > Settings

I feel like the promise and the actuality of this plugin are worlds apart, sadly.

I use UntrackMe on android

Swap out the "twitter.com" in the URL for a nitter instance of your choice to see it sans recommendations, ads etc:

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

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