Background

A couple of years ago, I developed an addon to redirect from Reddit to Teddit. It was convenient and I much preferred the UI of Teddit as well as the privacy gains of using it.

Last night, teddit.net trended over at Hacker News. When you type reddit.com/r/unixporn it becomes teddit.net/r/unixporn. Since I often end up on Reddit from links instead of casually browsing, I thoughy it would be handy with a way of automatically redirecting all Reddit links to Teddit instead. Of course addons for redirecting one URL to another already exist, but I figured this would be a nice project to dip a toe into the world of browser addon development.

Teddit got killed in the recent API changes Reddit did to enforce paid API usage, but a few days ago I found Redlib.

10-second pitch: Redlib is a private front-end like Invidious but for Reddit. Browse the coldest takes of r/unpopularopinion without being tracked.

🚀 Fast: written in Rust for blazing-fast speeds and memory safety

☁️ Light: no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking, no bloat

🕵 Private: all requests are proxied through the server, including media

🔒 Secure: strong Content Security Policy prevents browser requests to Reddit

Introducing Redlib-redirect

The original addon has now been modified to redirect to redlib instead of teddit. Thanks to Nerdmind the addon now blocks the request to Reddit, to avoid any data going to Reddit for them to data mine of you.

I removed the original addon when Teddit was killed, since I thought it would no longer have any use. That meant that the new addon needed a new ID on the Firefox Addon Store, and that Teddit-redirect won’t automatically be updated to Redlib-redirect. The new addon has a new fancy icon too.

The addon is still licensed under the MIT license.

Further reading

• Post about the original development
• Full source code for redlib-redirect on github
• redlib-redirect on addons.mozilla.org