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Automatically redirect to working instances of privacy-oriented alternative frontends, such as Nitter, Invidious, Piped, etc #2439

Closed Kap2022 closed 1 year ago

Kap2022 commented 2 years ago

Can you give admins an option to make inserting the Farside prefix in front of all links to youtube etc. This would make it easy for us to drive traffic to open source front ends instead of big tech. Might need a fall back where if the farside preview does not pull through, then it removes the prefix.

Farside also accepts URLs to "parent" services, and will redirect to an appropriate front end service, for example:

https://farside.link/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ will redirect to a Piped or Invidious instance https://farside.link/reddit.com/r/popular will redirect to a Libreddit or Teddit instance etc.

Also it avoids the CloudFlare choke point as they try and centralize web traffic through their service:

Instances for each supported service that are deployed behind Cloudflare are not included when using farside.link. . . Their mission to centralize the entire web behind their service ultimately goes against what Farside is trying to solve.

Maybe include Farside in the standard installation.

dessalines commented 2 years ago

That seems a bit dangerous to me, these routing services go down all the time. I'd rather people rely on configurable browser plugins for these redirect-type services.