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Have you tried the LibRedirect browser add-on?

It automatically redirects you to FOSS, privacy-focused Alternative Front-ends of big-tech sites/non private platforms.

There are alternative front-ends to YouTube, Twitter, Medium, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, etc.

Each of these sites has a list of Alternative Front-ends' servers which you can select for the service to redirect to. You can also add Custom Instances.

So, when you click on a YouTube link, say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ it automatically redirects you to https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ for example.

Firefox Addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

Chromium/Chrome/Edge: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect/blob/master/chromium.md

LibRedirect git link: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect

Do check it out, it's fun and has a lot of interesting sections in it.

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LibRedirect – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download LibRedirect for Firefox. Redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
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in reply to Dr. Percy

Adrian Cochrane
Adrian Cochrane
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Hey, I've been planning on bundling such a plugin into my future browsers! I specifically left myself (or originally I was thinking of others packaging my software, but I'm taking more of that on now) an extension port for it!

Planning on using FarSide.Link to avoid overloading any of the servers...

This same "redirection" extension port could also be used for adblocking, though with my extreme privacy protection that need's reduced. And stripping tracking from URLs.
in reply to Adrian Cochrane

Adrian Cochrane
Adrian Cochrane
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To be clear: I do not plan on maintaining such an extension to strip tracking URLs myself, I do not want to set any expectation I'll keep ontop of this whack-a-mole game. Hasn't been one yet, but with Mozilla entering the arena I'm sure it'll become one...

Also I'm specifically preinstalling such a redirection extension for damage-control. These popular sites generally are the ones to require JavaScript, & I'll never implement JS. So to avoid breaking these links...
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