LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

Farside extension, 847 stars: https://github.com/benbusby/farside

Using venrable farside.link

https://sr.ht/~benbusby/farside/

https://farside.link/

Why use your offering?

Maybe for the fact it as 4 times as many stars on GitHub if that's what you care about?

This comment could've been phrased better, but Farside does have an important feature that LibRedirect lacks, which is automatic instance selection based on reachability. Instances routinely fail and new ones are added, so automating that aspect instead of requiring manual instance selection by the user is a powerful feature.

Anyway, thanks for mentioning it!

Using Farside means the initial redirect goes through Farside, so they are capable of knowing what videos you're watching, what tweets you're looking at, etc. You have to trust them not to monitor this. Using a client-side extension means only the instance you use knows this.

It's a Go project that seems trivial to self-host. By your logic we shouldn't trust any of the instances of the alternative services either since anyone could be monitoring their use as well.