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minus-squareRedStrider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-29 months agoif you replace the www.reddit part of the link with farside.link/libreddit it will send you to a random frontend instance. this means no ads, no js, no trackers, and probably none of this. to do this you’ll need a browser extension. try this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ (couldn’t find this one for chrome but you can choose another) if you used the extension i gave you you can import below as a plaintext in the settings. redirect.txt { "redirects": [ { "description": "", "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/example", "exampleResult": "https://farside.link/libreddit/r/example", "error": null, "includePattern": "https://www.reddit.com*", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "https://farside.link/libreddit$1", "patternType": "W", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame", "sub_frame" ] }, { "description": "", "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/example", "exampleResult": "https://farside.link/libreddit/r/example", "error": null, "includePattern": "https://old.reddit.com*", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "https://farside.link/libreddit$1", "patternType": "W", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame", "sub_frame" ] } ] }
if you replace the www.reddit part of the link with farside.link/libreddit it will send you to a random frontend instance.
this means no ads, no js, no trackers, and probably none of this.
to do this you’ll need a browser extension. try this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ (couldn’t find this one for chrome but you can choose another)
if you used the extension i gave you you can import below as a plaintext in the settings.
redirect.txt
{ "redirects": [ { "description": "", "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/example", "exampleResult": "https://farside.link/libreddit/r/example", "error": null, "includePattern": "https://www.reddit.com*", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "https://farside.link/libreddit$1", "patternType": "W", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame", "sub_frame" ] }, { "description": "", "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/example", "exampleResult": "https://farside.link/libreddit/r/example", "error": null, "includePattern": "https://old.reddit.com*", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "https://farside.link/libreddit$1", "patternType": "W", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame", "sub_frame" ] } ] }