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Wanted to share the libredirect Firefox plugin, for abandoning Youtube.
(libredirect.github.io)
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this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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"Access your data for all websites" is important because otherwise it doesn't know what domain you're on in the first place.
Access browser tabs
Access browser activity during navigation
are enough to do that.
Maybe the devs don't know that. Could you open an issue on this?
Asking you because you may know more about these permissions than me.
I've been using the addon for some time, and while it's good now, there were some silly mistakes in the past. What I'm trying to say is that maybe they're just relatively a beginner, and it haven't yet occurred to them to revisit the permissions.
I went through the issues. Indeed what I said was all you need for redirecting from YouTube et al, but now it also checks every single libre instance you go to and goes to somewhere else if the instance is down.
Shouldn’t it just require access to i.e. YouTube.com and not a blanket everything? This is what other extensions do.
It can redirect a dozen other services too
Just add them to the list. They have to code separate rules anyway.