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Invidious/alternative frontend redirect support
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Description
Feature Request: Invidious / Alternative Frontend Redirect
Description
Add option to redirect YouTube video URLs to alternative privacy-respecting frontends like Invidious, Piped, or CloudTube for ad-free, tracker-free viewing.
Why
- RedirectMe (GreasyFork) — YouTube to Invidious redirect
- YouTube to Invidious (GreasyFork) — dedicated redirect script
- Privacy-conscious users want ad-free viewing without extensions
Preferred behavior
- Toggle: redirect all youtube.com/* to chosen Invidious instance
- Instance selector (public instance list or custom)
- Auto-redirect button per video
- Works for watch pages, channels, search
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the extension's YouTube URL navigation handling and settings UI. Trace how watch pages, channels, and search URLs are handled, then identify where redirect preferences and instance selection would fit. Done means the requested toggle, instance choice, custom instance support, and per-video redirect behavior work across the listed YouTube page types.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100