This add on redirects youtube video links (like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID) to invidio.us - an alternative youtube frontend being more minimalistic and private https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
The add-on can be found on AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector-watch-yt-invidious/
The easiest way to test the extension locally for development is by using
web-ext, a Node.js tool written by Mozilla to streamline the web extension
development (https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext).
Running following command spwans a new Firefox instance with the add-on enabled:
web-ext run
Building it locally is being achieved by:
web-ext build
To install the add-on manually, refer to the instructions in this support article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-and-install-add-ons-add-features-to-firefox#w_how-do-i-find-and-install-add-ons
Right now, redirector is being far from feature complete. There are some obvious features I am planning to add in the future aiming for a 1.0 stable release:
- Supporting all possible youtube locales (currently only us and de)
- Being able to redirect to other invidio.us instances