Re:Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popula...
by mendel5 on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:05AM
(#29623033)
Yes, there is a browser addon called "privacy-redirect" [0].
It can be configured to direct all requests for Twitter.com to a Nitter instance specified by you (or a random one).
The browser addon can also be configured to redirect YouTube requests to Invidious, Instagram requests to Bibliogram, and even others.
The privacy-redirect browser addon is available for Mozilla Firefox [1], Google Chrome [2] and Microsoft Edge [3].
[0] https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
[3] https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/privacy-re...
I access twitter only via links usually, when someone refers to a tweet.
A quick test by replacing "tw" with "n" in the URL led to "not found", so apparently it's not that easy.
Edit: Reading capability is a clear advantage. It's .net, not .com, actually it works. Though editing is less comfortable now, so question still remains valid :)