libredirect/README.md

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A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

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Note: The Extension will be using random instances by default. You can modify this and add custom instances too.

Please read the FAQ if you have any questions!

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Development

Install Dependencies

Node.js latest LTS is recommended

npm update
npm install

To generate HTML that uses config.json (needed to develop/build the extension), run:

npm run ejs

Afterwards, you will need to run it if you modify config.json or any files ending with .ejs.

Build the extension zip archive:

npm run build

Run automated tests

npm run test

Test in Firefox

npm run start

Install temporarily

  1. open about:addons
  2. type in the address bar about:debugging
  3. press load temporarily addon

Install in Firefox ESR, Developer Edition, Nightly

  1. open about:config
  2. set xpinstall.signatures.required to false
  3. open about:addons
  4. click on the gear shaped settings button and select Install Add-on From File...
  5. select libredirect-VERSION.zip from web-ext-artifacts folder

Install in Chromium browsers

  1. open chrome://extensions
  2. enable dev mode
  3. select load unpacked extension
  4. select src folder

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