LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

This is just going to normalize adware / phishing. These front ends can show ads or ask for users personal information.

Redirecting people from trusted sources to these other sites is very risky and opens up opportunities for malicous people to exploit this. That's not even considering this extension is compromised or purchased and these dangerous permissions that it has are used against you.

Yeah, but these front-ends mostly aren't built for authenticated usage. The tracking done by the actual source sites is quantifiable and immense. Proxying is a good option for removing a lot of the tracking capabilities, especially via an instance you control.

>an instance you control

But most people are not going to do that. They are going to be redirected to a site with no guarantee of what is there. The domain could expire and someone else could register it, a hacker could replace one of the front ends with a phishing page, etc.

I reckon one of these front ends serving ads will have trouble maintaining a user base large enough to justify the effort of serving ads