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???
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