[jraph]

I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit or old.reddit, Google Maps to openstreetmap and other stuff. Redirects can be enabled/disabled to ones taste. That's quite neat.

Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving computers I control.

May your own extension succeed too. I guess building it and releasing it are already two successes on their own.

[kingTug]

Are nitter instances still working? I was under the impression that project died when Elon curtailed api access.

[koito17]

You're probably thinking of libreddit, which indeed shut down when Reddit's API access was shut off. Now most libreddit instances out there either return a 429 error or simply don't exist anymore.

Nitter on the other hand has been doing fine on my end. Instances with heavy traffic, such as nitter.net, do frequently run into rate limiting errors. But if you use relatively more obscure instances, then almost nothing has changed.

[petemir]

They keep working with a workaround, by using guest tokens handed out to the Android application. So, until they change the functioning of the app, it will keep working.

[Modified3019]

I used the official nitter.net instance successfully just yesterday, at least with the limited functionality I cared about.

It’s likely to come and go as they fight an arms race.

[SanjayMehta]

nitter.cz is still working complete with RSS support.

nitter.nl/net work, but without RSS.

Many of the other instances have become unreliable.

[askiiart]

Yep, nitter still works.

[mirashii]

Although not out of the box right now, it requires running some external scripts to grab guest accounts and running a build off a branch or fork. See https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983

[d3vr]

Thanks for sharing your setup, might look into that. In my case, the reason I decided to create the extension is that I didn't want to completely leave YT per se, but rather use the recommendations and browse the homepage and actually watch what I want on an alternative frontend.

[TaylorAlexander]

Is it able to feed user interactions back to YouTube? I want to like and comment on videos I like.

[saxonww]

Yeah it's a shame these aren't available for Firefox Mobile. At least one of the redirect plugins would be nice.

[citruscomputing]

There is a hacky workaround you can do to add any extension to ff mobile, it involves making a personal collection: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

[jraph]

I remember reading that firefox mobile is going to allow all extensions? Or maybe it's the case of the version coming from F-Droid?

[gear54rus]

While we're on the topic of unfucking youtube, do you know how I can turn shorts crappy player without controls into something that I can rewind? Sound volume controls would be nice too.

[jellyblade]

If you're watching on desktop, you can change the youtube video's url path from /shorts/video to youtube's usual ?watch=video and have it play in youtube's regular player. You can also just have an extension do this for you, which is what I do.

[jraph]

Invidious uses its regular player for shorts.