Extensions question - redirector v. privacy redirect

[ghost]

Quick question about recommended addons. In order to redirect URLs (cf. redirect foo.com to bar.com, for instance), the Wiki recommends Redirector, which gives quite some degree of freedom. Conversely, Privacy Redirect focuses only on major social media websites, but automates it all and probably does better than mere hand-made redirects. On github, Privacy redirect had 149 open issues, while Redirector has 99 -- not great for either. On AMO, Privacy Redirect was updated 7 months ago, while Redirector was updated almost 2 years ago.
Based in this, any reason to recommend one and not the other? Any feedback?
Dan

[remyabel2]

On AMO, Privacy Redirect was updated 7 months ago, while Redirector was updated almost 2 years ago.

Says August 18, 2021 and November 6, 2021 for me.

Based in this, any reason to recommend one and not the other? Any feedback?

Unless you want to set up all the redirects yourself, might as well use both.

[ghost]

Well noted. For Redirector, says 26 March 2020 for me.
Sure, both can be used together but 1) I am queasy about using simultaneously using two addons that are more or less doing the same thing (seems like they could interfere with each other), and 2) it is sound to try and limit the number of addons used.

[silverwings15]

https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect is a an actively developed fork of Privacy Redirect which hasn't seen much activity in a while

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

The fundamental issue of state tracking cross-site is already (and has been since FPI) solved (with dFPI and network partitioning), so as far as I'm concerned, this is all just fluff about people's usage

• enumerating the most popular sites to use something else is a feel-good karma BS

I don't use redirector, but I assume it's more powerful since you can craft your own

I also cannot be fucked looking into the security/FPing issues of privacy redirect or it's fork, and I don't really know enough about it - for example it replaces the sources of third party embedded videos - how does it do that - is it safe?

I don't feel the need to push an extension for 4k users or a new fork of it. Why are you guys (not you specifically, I meant in general) always so eager to jump on "new" or "obscure" things and clamor for them - as soon as someone announces Extension X, does X,Y and Z .. it's like a grifter and snake oil

Feel free to chat, but I'm closing and unsubscribing

[ghost]

Thanks for chipping in, @Thorin-Oakenpants. I don't have a dog in this fight and I am still new to this. My own reason to be interested is to limit tracking and, therefore, to avoid sites that are full of trackers. So if tracking is fully addressed via FPI/dFPI, maybe this isn't needed after all. Then the question becomes, what could be a valid use case for addons like these? I use invidous/nitter/etc. when directly accessing social media, but am somehow worries about social used on websites that I visit, esp. when logged in. Maybe that's misplaced worry?

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

ugh, don't @ name me, it resubscribes

[ghost]

Kinda tried to bring you back in with a question ;)

[m77e4t]

There is this new extension 'Libredirect' forked from the original Privacy redirect. It is well maintained and has added extra redirections for medium, tiktok, etc.
If you want, you can use it. Work really well. https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect

I am not affiliated with the project or checked the code myself, so if you want to download and use it, do it on your risk. It is pretty new extension, so it is upto you.