Wanted to share the libredirect Firefox plugin, for abandoning Youtube.
Wanted to share the libredirect Firefox plugin, for abandoning Youtube.
A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends
This is a plugin I found recently and really enjoy. It gives you the opportunity to redirect several webpages to alternatives. For example Youtube to FreeTube or Piped. If I search for youtube in Firefox, FreeTube automatically opens and shows me my feed. I like it, I use it, I can recommend it.
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This still can't be installed on standard FireFox mobile, right?
on android you can enable "share"/"open in external app" and send the link to piped or newpipe or whatever your preferred app is; that's how I do it
Yeah, that's what I currently do. I'm just constantly annoyed how restricted I seem to be in Firefox mobile in general with add-ons. No scripting add-on, no redirect add-on, no User Agent add-on. I still run Firefox as my main on all devices, but using it on mobile is definitely my least favorite.
You can and have been able to install pretty much any add-on you want in the nightly and I guess beta versions, for a long time.
It's not exactly convenient but it can be done.
https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/
I agree it it very annoying. I feel it goes against the whole libre and neutrality aspect of why firefox is important. I want the full linux-type experience on every device. :D
As the other comment says, it is possible to get addons in mobile FF . Tbh I have never done it. But I probably will someday.
On Android, I recommend the UntrackMe app. It basically does the same as LibRedirect. You can also use this hack to install desktop extensions like LibRedirect in Firefox Mobile, it requires Fennec Nightly (essentially the Firefox beta version) or Mull (hardened Firefox which is built from Fennec Nightly) though.
Not currently, but Mozilla has announced a "dramatic" increase in the available extensions for mobile coming in December, so, fingers crossed.
(as others have pointed out you can with Firefox Nightly and a custom collection)
Sadly not, no.
It works fine on Fennec, Beta, Nightly, and others using custom collection.
I thought someone might say that, lol. It's good to know this extension will work that way. I have at least one extension that when using the custom collection method causes none of the extensions in the collection to load or work.
I experience the same issue with some extensions. You never know which extension will work properly using custom collection.
Sadly, you can't install Librediec directly from Mozilla without collection on Nightly.