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		mhio on Sept 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram ... I find it mildly amusing that to help redirect away from centralised services, there's an uber centralised service to help.

dvzk on Sept 21, 2022 [–]

Not just that, the suggested advice to replace all instance URLs with farside.link defeats the extension’s secondary privacy feature by sending all YT/Twitter/IG URL requests to Farside’s servers.

mike_d on Sept 21, 2022 | [–]

You can run your own farside instance as well. https://github.com/benbusby/farside

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