anyone know of a Firefox add-on that redirects all yt links EXCEPT the home page? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Yggnar@lemmy.world to c/piped@feddit.rocks

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Title. I really like using the YouTube home page to find new content I'm not subscribed to since trending is hot garbage. I'd love to use the home page like I used to but have my browser redirect to piped after I click a video. Anyone have a solution?

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[-] 0v0@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Redirector allows you to specify a pattern to do that.

[-] Yggnar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

So I tried that, seems like a nice add-on, but it doesn't seem to work when I click the videos on the homepage. If I then refresh the page with the video it'll redirect though. Am I doing something wrong or does this have to do with how YouTube is sending me to the video?

[-] thantik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you not middle-click the videos to open in a new tab? Because it's possible that YouTube is re-writing the page dynamically instead of actually sending you over to a new URL.

[-] Yggnar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not usually, but that's a habit I could form I suppose, if that's the only answer

[-] kouichi@ani.social 4 points 1 year ago

This will work only if you open the link in a new tab:

Install LibRedirect.
Set up all the Piped instances you'd like to use for YouTube redirect.
On "General", under "Excluded from redirecting", add this as Regex: https?:\/\/(www\.|)youtube.com\/?$

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