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I keep thinking about installing this, but the required permissions seem a bit excessive:
This add-on needs to:
- Input data to the clipboard
- Access your data for all websites
Anyone know if the 'All Access' permission is really required for what this is doing? It just feels wrong. There isn't some sort of "Control Navigation for These Domains" that it could request for each enabled site or something is there?
"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.
It's open source, you can ask the author and other users about it too (if you can't read the code yourself)
Oh, I'm confident(-ish) in my ability to review the code, but as I understand it I have no way to guarantee that the code that's on github is the code that AMO installs. Plus updates are automatic, so I have no way to ensure that something malicious won't be added anyway.
You can build it yourself from source then.
You can only do that with Firefox Developer, can't you? And IIRC, they self uninstall after a week or something, don't they?
You can either install it unsigned with Firefox Developer Edition and it will be permanent. Or you can sign it yourself (you don’t need to publish it on AMO): https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-and-distribution-overview/ and it will work on regular Firefox.
Addon files (.xpi files) are zip packages of the addons. They should contain the script files without obfuscation (I think this is an AMO policy), besides any resources and the addon manifest file.
The only thing that would be harder to inspect I think is webassembly files.
I think you can still build the extension package and upload it yourself
I would suggest Redirector.
It lets you redirect any site you desire.
Sadly the developer passed away. I found out after looking into the development when trying to edit some redirects brought my phone to its knees. It's a good extension, but clearly needs a bit of love.
RIP Einar Egilsson
Shit, that's my favorite redirect extension for Chrome.
I will take a look, but can anyone offer suggestions for casting from my phone? Over the years I have become very accustomed to setting up a YouTube casting queue when I start my remote work shift and just letting it play all day as background noise and as much as I hate YT, I love the creators I watch and the convenience. I am very much so ambivalent about the abuses vs my mental well-being for work.
Take a look at ReVanced
Unfortunately both ReVanced and ReVanced Extended do not support casting. Just tested it. The whole issue is that I need it put onto the TV, which they unfortunately can not do. I will be keeping them for when I am watching on my phone, so thank you for that.
SmartTubeNext
I was reading the name as "lib-redirect" lol
Also, spanish is my native language
Edit: argh maybe it's LibRedirect indeed
If I were to guess, I'd say it's libre-redirect, with the middle 're' being deduplicated.
Ahhh, so it's meant to say libre direct.
English is mine and I've been reading it the same way as you up until you just mentioned it.
Any reason for making a new extension instead of creating a FastForward filter list?
Never heard of Fast Forward before, only LibRedirect. How do they compare?
Edit: They appear to be totally different use cases
This still can't be installed on standard FireFox mobile, right?
on android you can enable "share"/"open in external app" and send the link to piped or newpipe or whatever your preferred app is; that's how I do it
Sadly not, no.
Not currently, but Mozilla has announced a "dramatic" increase in the available extensions for mobile coming in December, so, fingers crossed.
(as others have pointed out you can with Firefox Nightly and a custom collection)
Any chance it only redirects the watch URLs on YouTube? So you can use YouTube to find the videos and on clicking them links it takes you elsewhere?
Nope, for that you should use something like Redirector, but I don't think it allows random instance selection.