X Redirector

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:07:21 +0300

I built a small browser extension that redirects x.com to a Nitter-compatible frontend of your choice. It is Manifest V3, has no build step, and is about 200 lines of plain HTML and JavaScript.

inc00ming/first-extension

Why Nitter

Nitter is an alternative Twitter frontend, and the reasons I wanted it are simple:

No JavaScript, no ads. Pages are rendered server-side and arrive as HTML.
No account. For a read-only user there is nothing to sign into and nothing to dismiss.
The client never talks to X. Every request goes through the Nitter backend, so there is no IP address or JavaScript fingerprint to collect on the other end.
It is genuinely light. The project’s own README measures a profile page at 60KB against 784KB from twitter.com.

It is AGPLv3, which is how a frontend like this stays a frontend and not somebody’s proprietary proxy.

Browser-Extensions on buyrukoglu

X Redirector

Why Nitter