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I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect, which supports many other service alternatives as well.


I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/, which lets me set up redirects for anything I want.


I use

https://gist.github.com/Beyarz/c3a95a3b675342f6eb33878f2d5bc...

Because I already have greasemonkey running anyway and it's hard to hide malware in 2 lines of JS (not impossible mind you)


Both of these two options other than Libredirect are fairly inconvenient for switching between instances or having to maintain multiple for different frontends. Furthermore, while it doesn't obviously guarantee it won't become malware, Libredirect is completely open source.


Unfortunately Libredirect went completely bonkers and is going to stop using public instances and instead will download binaries (or docker containers) (sic) to run frontends on user's device.

[0] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/issues/725#...


I was about to say that, great extension.




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