There's also Request Control, which is probably what you're looking for. More powerful than Redirector actually, but it comes with some common rules built in (not as comprehensive as ClearURLs though).
I keep a blog on wordpress.com, but I really dislike their new blog admin interface, but the interface one can still be accessed , so I redirect to there to edit my posts on the old interface
I use some alternative front-ends, like imginn.com, which is alternative front-end to instagram, so I set to redirect links there.
This sort of thing.
It releases in August.
If you choose not to, you should probably cede the right to complain about problems solved with MV2 extensions, since those problems are now self-inflicted.
This one is manifest v3: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xcancelcom-redirect...
This userscript (despite the name) also redirects to xcancel: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/450008-twitter-to-nitter-r...
The reason I open on my phone is because I find via places like HN, Twitter, Bsky, read the abstract, and then send the link back to my computer for later reading (Firefox send tabs). 99.9% of the time I do not want the pdf...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirectify/
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirectify/mhjmbf...
Source: https://github.com/imurray/redirectify
Sadly I never got around to making it configurable, so it's just a fixed table of rules for a handful of journal and pre-print sites.
I also found out that Kagi (the paid search engine) supports rewriting results, which is probably where you'll see a lot of the links you follow.[1]
For instance, if you get some Fandom results, you can change them to antifandom that is part of the BreezeWiki project[2], if you so prefer: https://forgottenrealms.antifandom.com.
This is such a value-add! Pretty smart guys.-
It can redirect mobile users to the mobile site but still serves desktop users the mobile site. Why is this reverse direction so hard?
What the fuck is up with the light/dark theme feature? I'm really happy they implemented it, but why is the default 'skin-theme-clientpref-day' (light theme)? Shouldn't the default be 'skin-theme-clientpref-os' (automatic)? What's the point of having "automatic" if it isn't... you know... automatic? It's literally a one liner (setting default value). Am I missing something much more nuanced?
I see stuff like this all the time, not just on Wiki. Stuff drives me nuts. Just adds needless extra work. I know it is kinda petty to complain about having to click an extra button or two, but I thought the whole point of programming was to automate stuff. Hell, how often do we automate stuff that doesn't need to be lol. Isn't the classic programmer problem that we spend more time automating and optimizing than would be saved by the automation? I mean the theme issue is 5 seconds of work and saves a billion users 2 seconds, each. That one seems worth it if there isn't some other issue.
rdmuser•1d ago
He was a bit of a hn user and seemed good natured and pleasant. Though I didn't know him I was sad to hear he'd passed both as a Redirector user and a fan of good people doing good things. I know he'd mentioned being happy to get recognition on here. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=einaregilsson
I really enjoyed the original devs write up on creating an easter egg specifically targeting Mark Hamills avatar in game. https://einaregilsson.com/an-easter-egg-for-one-user-luke-sk... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715746
Bluestein•1d ago
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out-of-ideas•18h ago
though sadly it has not had an update in a while (a dark mode would be great) (and rarely, a page-url match does not always match a request-rule where i believe some javahell shinanigans take over and somehow get their way)