Teddit Please is a Chrome extension that redirects all your Reddit traffic to a lightweight, privacy-friendly, open source Reddit front-end called Teddit whenever you click on a reddit link or directly browse to reddit.
If you are using your own teddit instance to browse reddit, you can redirect reddit links to your instance, by going to Options and pasting in URL to your instance.
- Download this repo as a ZIP file from GitHub.
- Unzip the file
- In Chrome, go to the extensions page - chrome://extensions
- Enable Developer Mode.
- Click
Load unpackedbutton and select thesrcfolder that was extracted or drag the extractedsrcfolder anywhere on the page to import it
If you are curious or concerned about the permissions requested by this extension, the following is a brief explainer for each permission and where you can find it used in code:
webRequestandwebRequestBlockingare used to redirect your trafficstorageis used to store the URL you set if you decide to use your own teddit instancebackgroundscripts can't be run withpersistentkey set to false when using thewebRequestAPI
The icon used for the extension was found on teddit's open source repo