Social Switch Alternatives

Social Switch is described as 'Redirect Instagram and TikTok URLs to anonymous viewers. Access any profile, posts, tagged posts, stories profile or tags on Instagram or any profile on TikTok and the extension will redirect' and is an app in the web browsers category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Social Switch for a variety of platforms, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Web-based, Vivaldi and Linux apps. The best Social Switch alternative is LibRedirect, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Social Switch are Privacy Redirect, Redirector, Predirect and YT Siphon.

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  1. LibRedirect icon
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    A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

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    Platforms

    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Brave
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  2. A simple web extension that redirects requests to privacy friendly alternatives. The successor fork is LibRedirect.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vivaldi Browser
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  3. Redirector icon
     15 likes

    Redirector is a browser add-on for Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Opera. The add-on lets you create redirects for specific webpages, e.g. always redirect http://bing.com to http://google.com. It was originally done by request for someone on the Mozillazine forums.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Vivaldi Browser
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
  4. Predirect icon
     8 likes

    A open source manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions that automatically redirects popular sites to privacy friendly frontends and backends

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    Platforms

    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  5. YT Siphon icon
     3 likes

    YT Siphon is a browser extension that lets you choose to open YouTube videos in alternative frontends. Instead of auto-redirecting, it gives you the power to decide with simple shortcuts.

    14 YT Siphon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Firefox
     
  6. A browser extension that redirects Twitter links to Nitter instead.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  7. Linkahest icon
     1 like

    A privacy-focused Android app written in Kotlin that transforms social media links to selfhostable alternative frontends before sharing them.

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    • Android
     
  8. UntrackMe icon
     6 likes

    UntrackMe once set by default to open Twitter and YouTube links will transform them into Nitter and Invidious links and delegate the action to another app. It also supports Google Maps links to transform them into OpenStreetMap links or Geo URI.

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9. Invidition icon
     1 like

    Invidition is an extension allowing you to redirect YouTube and X requests to their counterparts, Invidious and .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Firefox
     
  10. Redirects all YouTube links to Invidious. Previously hooktube-redirect, but changed since Hooktube is no longer allowed to use the YouTube API, apparently.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Firefox
     
  11. Farside icon
     2 likes

    Farside provides links that automatically redirect to working instances of privacy-oriented alternative frontends, such as Nitter, Libreddit, etc. This allows for users to have more reliable access to the available public instances for a particular service, while also helping to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. A plugin for web browsers that brings more utility for LBRY Protocol by allowing you to find people you watch on YouTube that are available on Odysee, LBRY Desktop App and other LBRY Protocol based apps/websites, allows you to easly check your subscribtion list and much more!

    11 Watch on Odysee alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
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