w3bdev1/alter

A Firefox Add-on redirecting to privacy-friendly alternatives: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/alter/

Archived 🔒

• This repo is closed for 2 major reasons:
  1. I have lost 2FA credentials to log into my Mozilla account. So there is no possibility for future updates.
  2. The project requires a complete overhaul. Further patches will complicate it unnecessarily.
• I hope Alter was able to provide some value.

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Alter

• It is a browser extension, currently available for Firefox.
• Alter tries to redirect you to privacy-friendly alternatives.
• As of now it redirects YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and Medium links to Invidious, Nitter, Teddit, Bibliogram and Scribe respectively.

How to download

• Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/alter/

Alter can "access your data for all websites". Can I trust it?

• Alter watches all urls and and only redirects those that matches its filters.
• It runs completely on your browser.
• It has no third-party.
• It does not keep any log.
• The source code is completely open source.

FAQs

Sometimes it is stuck and do not redirect. What to do?

• The Alter icon provides you the option to change redirect instances.
• In this case you need to change instance to a different one.

After update, some redirections are showing undefined. What to do?

• When new redirection feature is added, no instance is saved for the new feature. So alter does not know where to redirect.
• Click on the Alter icon and submit the form once. You'll be good to go.

alter's Issues

Certain YouTube links are not handled correctly

Hi there

Today i noticed that shortlinks like https://youtu.be/IDENTIFIER?feature=shared are not rewritten correctly because the rewrite ends up missing the /watch?. The link should look like /watch?v=IDENTIFIER

I'll take a look if that's somehow easily fixable without making the regexes too complex

[question] about accessing data for all sites

hello! i was interested in your extension and was curious why it needs to access data for all sites when it only redirects from certain urls?
i was looking to consolidate some other individual redirect extensions i was using, but they only access data for the websites in the relevant domains. if they can manage to do so, i'm not sure why it is necessary that this one is watching all urls.
thank you!

Scrible doesn't load images when Alter is enabled

Alter seems to replace all of the medium cdn addresses with the instance domain, this leads images not being loaded properly.
When the medium article is reloaded on scribe with alter disabled, everything gets displayed without a problem


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Support mobile.twitter.com

https://mobile.twitter.com/
is not redirected to Nitter.
I'd be happy if it is supported.

Config to disable each service

I want to disable Alter per each service(NItter/Invidious etc...), so could you please add config to do that?

Self-defined instances

Will there be an option to add self-defined instances? Especially for the self-hosted addresses.
Also a support for lingva would be nice.

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