Sidestep
Intercept URLs, remove tracking, and redirect to privacy-friendly frontends.
Android app that intercepts social media URLs and redirects them to alternative frontends while removing tracking parameters. No apps or accounts needed to access the content shared with you.
Alternative Frontends
Bypass closed ecosystems and access a more open internet - with a less cluttered web experience. Sidestep supports several major platforms with configurable alternatives:
Flexible Configuration & Smart URL Cleaning
Automatically removes tracking parameters from all URLs:
Granular control over how URLs are processed:
Tracking-proof
Alternative Frontends
Bypass closed ecosystems and access a more open internet - with a less cluttered web experience. Sidestep supports several major platforms with configurable alternatives:
- Twitter/X → Nitter
- Reddit → Redlib
- YouTube → Invidious, Piped
- Google Maps → OpenStreetMap
- IMDb → LibreMDB
- Medium → Scribe
- Wikipedia → Wikiless
- Goodreads → BiblioReads
- Genius → Dumb, Intellectual
- Tumblr → Priviblur
- UrbanDictionary → RuralDictionary
- Imgur → Rimgo
- GitHub → GotHub
- StackOverflow → AnonymousOverflow
Flexible Configuration & Smart URL Cleaning
Automatically removes tracking parameters from all URLs:
- UTM parameters (utm_source, utm_medium, etc.)
- Platform-specific trackers (Twitter s/t, YouTube si, Instagram igsh)
- E-commerce tracking (Amazon, affiliate links)
- Analytics parameters
Granular control over how URLs are processed:
- Unshorten URLs: Automatically resolves shortened links (bit.ly, t.co, etc.)
- Remove Tracking: Strip analytics and tracking parameters
- Immediate Navigation: Automatically open the processed URL in your browser
- Clean Only Mode: Remove tracking without redirecting
- Clean & Sidestep Mode: Remove tracking AND redirect to alternative frontend
- Custom Redirects: Add your own domain mappings
- Instance Picker: Fetch live, healthy instances sorted by uptime
Tracking-proof
- Previews fetched via DuckDuckGo (optional)
- No Data Collection: Zero analytics, zero tracking
- Local Processing: All URL cleaning happens on-device
- 作者: blankdotdev
- 授權條款: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only
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雖然在下方可選擇下載 APK 檔案，但要留意這樣的安裝方式將不會收到更新通知，是一種較不安全的下載方法。建議您先安裝 F-Droid 用戶端使用。
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此版本需要 Android 7.0 或更高的版本。
此套件包由原開發者建置和簽署，並保證與此原始碼 Tarball 保持一致。