Teddit is no longer actively maintained, so this extension is also no longer actively maintained

Teddit Please

Teddit Please is a Chrome extension that redirects all your Reddit traffic to a lightweight, privacy-friendly, open source Reddit front-end called Teddit whenever you click on a reddit link or directly browse to reddit.

Using your own teddit instance

If you are using your own teddit instance to browse reddit, you can redirect reddit links to your instance, by going to Options and pasting in URL to your instance.

Installing extension from repo

1. Download this repo as a ZIP file from GitHub.
2. Unzip the file
3. In Chrome, go to the extensions page - chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer Mode.
5. Click Load unpacked button and select the src folder that was extracted or drag the extracted src folder anywhere on the page to import it

Permissions Audit

If you are curious or concerned about the permissions requested by this extension, the following is a brief explainer for each permission and where you can find it used in code:

• webRequest and webRequestBlocking are used to redirect your traffic
• storage is used to store the URL you set if you decide to use your own teddit instance
• background scripts can't be run with persistent key set to false when using the webRequest API

Credits

The icon used for the extension was found on teddit's open source repo