Feature Request: Automatically Open Medium in Freedium mode

[GoulartNogueira]

The Firefox add-on works great!

But I'd love if it worked automatically:
Every time I open a Medium page (or any page matching the config), I wish I was redirected to Freedium automatically, no clicks required.

In case some people don't want this feature (I don't know why), I suggest it could be an optional config.
Or they could just disable the plugin briefly.

[GoulartNogueira]

In the meanwhile, I'm using Redirector
It works flawlessly:

• Firefox AddOn
• Chrome Extension

How it works:

Once you install and configure, it will automatically:

1. Detect the url from Medium
2. Add the Freedium url
3. Redirect to Freedium

Configuration:

Simple config:

Include pattern:	https://medium.com/*
Redirect to:	https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/$1
Pattern type:	◉ Wildcard ○ Regular Expression

Conclusion:

With this approach, I don't even need the Freedium Browser extension anymore.
But still, I'd rather have this redirection implemented inside the Freedium AddOn and I believe it would benefit all users.

[GoulartNogueira]

Advanced (to include other websites)

Pick Regular Expression and split each domains with | in the pattern

Include pattern:	(https://(medium|towardsdatascience).com/.*)
Redirect to:	https://freedium.cfd/$1
Pattern type:	○ Wildcard ◉ Regular Expression

[wywywywy]

Thanks for the kind words.

It's a good idea but I feel that it's deviating from the core idea of this extension.

You might know already but in case you don't, there's a userscript that can do this feature well - https://gist.github.com/mathix420/e0604ab0e916622972372711d2829555

I'm not totally against the idea of implementing it into this extension but I want to make sure it actually brings more value than the existing solutions.

Also to be able to do redirects, we'll have to request the permission to change ALL websites (https:///), which is potentially a lot to ask for, for a simple extension like this. And it may turn users away. Any thoughts on this one?