Ferry

Fast, private URL redirector. Define rules; matching URLs are redirected natively.

Ferry redirects URLs the moment you load them — natively, privately, and fast. Set a rule once (for example, twitter.com → nitter.net, or reddit.com → old.reddit.com) and every matching request is rewritten by the browser itself. No JavaScript runs in the request path, and Ferry never sees the URLs you visit. WHY FERRY • Private by design. Ferry makes zero network calls and ships no analytics or telemetry. Your rules live only in your browser's local storage and are never sent anywhere. • Native speed. Redirects run through the browser's declarativeNetRequest engine (Manifest V3) — the same mechanism ad blockers use. No background script intercepts your traffic. • Simple rules. Match by wildcard (https://twitter.com/*) or regular expression, capture parts of the URL with * or (…), and reuse them in the redirect ($1, $2, …). • Instant. Rules apply the moment you save — no reload needed. • One-click pause. Toggle all redirects off from the toolbar popup without deleting a single rule. • Import friendly. Bring rules over from other redirector extensions; anything Ferry can't run (base64 / URL-decode transforms) is skipped with a clear notice. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open Ferry's options page. 2. Add a rule: pick Wildcard or Regex, set the include pattern, and set the redirect URL. Use an Example URL and Test to preview the result before saving. 3. Save. Visit a matching URL and you're redirected instantly. EXAMPLES • https://twitter.com/* → https://nitter.net/$1 • https://www.reddit.com/* → https://old.reddit.com/$1 • ^https://www\.youtube\.com/shorts/(.*)$ → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1 NOT SUPPORTED (by design) Ferry uses pure declarativeNetRequest, which keeps it private and fast but rules out two things: • Capture-group transforms (base64 / URL decode). • SPA soft-navigation redirects (in-app history changes). Hard page loads still redirect. Open source (MIT). Privacy policy: see the listing's privacy link.