Ensure Reddit always loads the old design

Latest Version

Version
2.0.1
Update
August 25, 2024
Size
15.92KiB
Developer
Category
Users
100,000+
Rating
4.75828 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions
DeclarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
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Old Reddit Redirect Extension

ℹ️ If you're wondering why the chrome extension recently requested new permissions, please see https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect/issues/117.

Dislike Reddit's redesign? Old Reddit Redirect will ensure that you always load the old (old.reddit.com) design instead.

Forces all reddit.com links to old.reddit.com, including navigating to the site, opening links or using old bookmarks.

Unlike the account setting for turning off the design, this works regardless of whether you are logged in or not or in incognito mode.

There are also a few minor quality of life improvements:

- Remove the undismissable cookie banner
- Prevent reddit from rendering raw image URLs as HTML
- Rewrite links to galleries to the raw old reddit comments page

Old Reddit Redirect is free and open source software. The code is available at https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect. Pull requests are more than welcome.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Old Reddit Redirect", "description": "Ensure Reddit always loads the old design", "version": "2.0.1", "manifest_version": 3, "icons": { "48": "img/icon48.png", "128": "img/icon128.png" }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["https://old.reddit.com/*"], "css": ["styles.css"] } ], "permissions": ["declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess"], "host_permissions": [ "*://reddit.com/*", "*://www.reddit.com/*", "*://np.reddit.com/*", "*://amp.reddit.com/*", "*://i.reddit.com/*", "*://i.redd.it/*", "*://preview.redd.it/*" ], "declarative_net_request": { "rule_resources": [ { "id": "ruleset_1", "enabled": true, "path": "rules.json" } ] }}
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