TamperMonkey Reddit > Alternative Reddit Redirect

March 5, 2024 at 13:02

I’ve been self-hosting a Reddit alternative (LibReddit) for a while now, and could not imagine a world where I go back to their vanilla front-end again (ew). Tools like LibRedirect maintain a list of self-hosted alternatives automatically. They also round robin random public LibReddit instances by default. I highly recommend adding them to your extension library.

However, I wanted a bit more control over my redirects. The following TamperMonkey script will allow you to build as many custom redirects as you wish.

    // ==UserScript==
    // @name         Reddit to SafeReddit Redirect
    // @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
    // @version      1.0
    // @description  Redirects all Reddit links to alternatives
    // @author       You
    // @match        *://*.reddit.com/*
    // @grant        none
    // @run-at       document-start
    // ==/UserScript==

    (function() {
        'use strict';

        let currentUrl = window.location.href;

        // Redirect www, old, and pay prefixes to alternative reddit
        if (currentUrl.includes('reddit.com')) {
            currentUrl = currentUrl.replace(/(www\.|pay\.|old\.)?reddit\.com/, 'safereddit.com');
            window.location.replace(currentUrl);
        }
    })();

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