Reviews for Old Reddit Redirect
Old Reddit Redirect by tomjwatson
Review by mrklean
Rated 1 out of 5
by mrklean, 2 years agoIs this some kind of protest or joke due to the third party apps protest on reddit?
Why on earth do all my Reddit links now redirect behind the scenes to https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/media/nice_hat/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fond2117tbwgb1.jpg instead of where the should land. The hover text in the bottom left for the URL even displays the correct URL, but having this extension enabled redirects me to the aforementioend "Nice_hat" link.
Below is a video of the issue - hope I can pass imgur links
https://i.imgur.com/xP95XAE.gif
Why on earth do all my Reddit links now redirect behind the scenes to https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/media/nice_hat/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fond2117tbwgb1.jpg instead of where the should land. The hover text in the bottom left for the URL even displays the correct URL, but having this extension enabled redirects me to the aforementioend "Nice_hat" link.
Below is a video of the issue - hope I can pass imgur links
https://i.imgur.com/xP95XAE.gif
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThis is due to a strange redirect that is being performed on Reddit's end. A fix has been made in the extension to avoid this happening and should reach users as version 1.7.2 whenever it makes it through the approval system.
See https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issues/86 for more details.
See https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issues/86 for more details.
300 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16174014, 4 days agoNo longer works reliably unfortunately. Used to work for years, but now I'm stuck on the new reddit interface...
Developer response
posted 4 days agoYou're probably hitting a known bug in Firefox itself where the extension randomly doesn't work. Try disabling and reenabling the extension.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1995192. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17316203, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19391462, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vin, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by grace46202, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by molly, 2 months agoSo suddenly stopped working today, apparently due to a "network policy" error, no idea what that means, I only want to access subreddits without making an account. Was a good experience until it stopped.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ki, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tangy, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19139464, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13540295, 4 months agoI don't visit reddit often, without this extension I would probably not visit it at all. It turns vastly overblown monstrous website into a one that is nice looking and fast.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19084874, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by goober4evaaa, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tttt, 5 months agoDelightful and simple - I prefer old format and this works a treat - Works fine as of 12/06/2025
- Rated 5 out of 5by SpikeyVash, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16625744, 6 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Coy Ote, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leo Heitmann Ruiz, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by GloriousMane, 7 months agoCan you please update this to always force the desktop site on firefox mobile? Right now it loads the proper design but all the text is gigantic and I have to manually select "desktop site" every time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by MathMan, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18507196, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rods, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13348396, 8 months ago