feat(tazjin/nittredir): Add Chrome extension to redirect to Nitter r/2136

There is another extension for this already, but it hooks in after the
page has already started loading - doing it on the URL change handler
is much faster.

Change-Id: I442552cbd8bb040df999a1624cafd436f4a7b875
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/2430
Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/users/tazjin/nittredir/background.js b/users/tazjin/nittredir/background.js
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index 0000000000..8d07f85285
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+++ b/users/tazjin/nittredir/background.js
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+/**
+ * Register a URL change handler that redirects twitter.com links to nitter.net
+ */
+
+chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener(function(details) {
+  let url = new URL(details.url);
+  return {
+    redirectUrl: ('https://nitter.net' + url.pathname)
+  };
+}, {urls: ['*://twitter.com/*'], types: ['main_frame']}, ['blocking']);