Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com (addons.mozilla.org)

very good.

i find it annoying that whenever there is a new browser extension on HN, i ask for a "firefox version" to which the response is almost always kneejerk "eww no" or something to that end. So to see a firefox extension, that's refreshing. I hope you continue working on it and help improve the extension ecosystem

This is generally sad.

People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it.

Depending on things we hate is a tragedy.

How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life.

Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

Is there any way to view trending topics on nitter/xcancel?

https://libredirect.github.io/ does this for many other services and has a good reputation

Great stuff.

I've just installed it and tested it on a link from a HN topic which worked exactly as advertised.

Great - instant install !

Is there something similar for Instagram?

Publishing workarounds like this terrifies me the service will no longer work soon.

I also like to redirect ^https?://instagram.com/(.*) to https://imginn.com/$1

But I never trust extensions, I do it manually.

You can add this as a bookmark in your browser, and just click it to toggle between x.com and xcancel.com

javascript:(function(){const p=['https://x.com','https://xcancel.com'],u=location.href,i=p.findIndex(x=>u.startsWith(x));if(i!==-1)location.href=p[(i+1)%p.length]+u.slice(p[i].length)})();

Twitter used to have a mobile version which was almost usable compared to regular, what happened to that? Doesn't seem to be working or it's actively redirecting me back to regular.

I used to have an extension per each domain then I've decided to publish regurlator https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/regurlator/jfgfmidm... ... this case would be like `^https:\/\/(?:x|twitter)\.com\/(.+)?$` `https://xcancel.com/$1` so you have a single extension with as many rules as you like and you can download/share/restore rules with ease (it's just a JSON file).

127.0.0.1 x.com in the hosts file does the job for me, but then I just want to avoid drive-by twits rather than see what they are saying

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I see that many of you still call it twitter. I get if it's a protest, but current X seems very unlike twitter, so I don't understand why it should be called by that name.

I dont use x, but I use this for redirects to reddit;

I create a two bookmarks in a folder called redirects in the bookmarks toolbar for easy access.

when I click on a link to reddit, I click on the bookmark and it automatically redirects to reddit.nerdvpn.de or redlib.privacyredirect.com. there are many others

javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('.reddit.com') && (location.host !='new.reddit.com') ) location.host='redlib.privacyredirect.com';})()

javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('.reddit.com') && (location.host !='new.reddit.com') ) location.host='reddit.nerdvpn.de';})()

here is the same thing for x.com redirects to xcancel.com

javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('.x.com') && (location.host !='new.x.com') ) location.host='xcancel.com ';})()

saves having loads of addons

- i ll tell you an even better option, dont!

- like honestly, dont. i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it.

- you ll never have even an ounce of mind the moment you open anything on x

- good time to make a new year resolution, delete your account on x and say a permanent goodbye. they are trying hard to lure you back in

https://github.com/pritkr/predirect is also there for many frontends like invidious,searxng,nitter,scribe etc,it's default list of instances is currently outdated but it's customisable

Elon killed twitter. I don't think this extension helps restore the original twitter, so it is a bit pointless.

Don't use an extension for every redirect. Use https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/redirector to write redirects for all sites.

I deleted my Twitter right before Elon bought it.

Aside from political or social reasons, X is a terrible platform.

More often than not, I get a blank page, something didn't load.

If I get content, it's (randomly) behind a registration-wall.

Or it shows confusing cookie banners that half the time don't even work. (Dev console full of js errors)

So I don't even bother anymore. This service is technically so fragile and unstable, it's not worth the click.

Aside from how it's socially and businesswise broken. Because I have looked into some of the errors and issues and they'll only occur for "anonymous users" and not for twitter users. They're oftencaused by (normal vanilla) adblockers or privacy protection.

So I dare say they're either malicious, deliberate. Or lack of interest/resources for non-registered and/or privacy-aware users

Libredirect will do for tons of domains.

If you use Dillo, with dilloc (from a git build, you need socket control support in the configure flag) and a menu command you can do it but not automatically.

Maybe w3m has some plugin to achieve the same too.

Also: https://farside.link

There is Libredirect which does the same and more: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

https://libredirect.github.io/

This is the extension I use:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/redirector/

Not only do I translate x.com -> xcancel.com, but

- cnn.com -> text.cnn.com

- youtube.com -> inv.nadeko.net

- instagram.com -> imginn.com

And more.

Regular expressions allow translations of paths for the redirection, so it does not just happen at the top level.