LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

the privacy stuff is fine(if not a bit suspect since we're still relying on the goodwill of the instance hosts to not be sketchy) but for me the biggest benefit for these third party front-ends is that my crappy laptop isn't constantly being pushed to the limits of it's capabilities just so I can read some gosh-darn text.

And reddit is not even close to the worst offender in that regard. Seriously, when did displaying words on a screen become so resource intensive???

have you tried old reddit?

The no-JS / reduced-JS aspect of some of these frontends is particularly interesting, since it implies that the JS wasn't ever necessary --- except perhaps its only purpose was to be privacy-invasive and user-hostile.

I reckon a very large chunk of the JS on many mainstream websites is explicitly for data collection and advertising.