There are also browser extensions which can do that redirect, but of course the story of browser extensions on mobile OSes is quite sad, and I'm sure Reddit will get rid of the old UI of these days anyway
In general is that you can't ever trust them apart from a few very large ones.
A redirect extension is ripe for the usual blackmarket shenanigans.
I have my own omni extension made up of copy pasted open source extensions. I normally wouldn’t go through the effort but web browsing is crucial and frequent enough to be worth it and it took less than a weekend to get it up and running, especially with Plasmo. It’s also another reason to prefer Firefox and MV2
It's the auto-update behaviour of browsers that should probably be criticised here, rather than having general distrust of all extension authors.