privacy-redirect VS farside

Compare privacy-redirect vs farside and see what are their differences.

privacy-redirect

A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives. (by SimonBrazell)

farside

A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services (by benbusby)
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privacy-redirect farside
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1,921 643
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0.0 9.5
8 months ago 3 days ago
JavaScript Elixir
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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privacy-redirect

Posts with mentions or reviews of privacy-redirect. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-13.

farside

Posts with mentions or reviews of farside. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-22.
  • Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2024
  • Show HN: uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023
  • Hinako dump
    1 project | /r/chiliehead | 12 Jun 2023
    6353 out of 7265 (87.447%) - Subreddits that have gone dark: r/anime (5+ million) femboysaremylife3: AYAYA PikaNone: No more Anime TheInstantis: It takes a single programming subreddit joining the protest to get a better alternative from scratch howlsterth: THIS IS IT Prime Gamingpankakes1112: AYAYA Weebs OUT a_real_turtle: f anime the_real_jude: anime is over. Finally blazonparadox: Amazing frozenpandaman: WOOOOO /r/anime garbagepost: ANIME IS GONE icehunter83: Is the countdown broken again? TheInstantis: LETS GOOO lightingnerd: Are, Are... frozenpandaman: lol why did anime use hawaiʻi time???? ModeratorNyaaori: btw if anyone is looking for alternative frontends to access major websites like twitch in a way that reduces how much data they can gather from you, check out https://farside.link/ jaysharp018: Holy shit. mag_solaegis: By the power of anime! Hört nur zujustagirldrownedzombie: Didint ypu cnagw your mind /r/cartalkuk??? ModeratorNyaaori: er like reddit* devnull9090: 6354 out of 7265 (87.460%) - Subreddits that have gone dark: r/NewJeans (5k+) ModeratorNyaaori: well twitch too Prime Gamingilluminist: AYAYA wtf this_is_a_poodle: ripperoni anime boombl4_wife: RainTime AYAYA Antwort an @devnull9090: 6354 out of 7265 (87.460%) - Subreddits that have gone dark: r/NewJeans (5k+)
  • Youtube's war on adblockers continues, sends cease & desist to invidious.io - you know what to do 😉
    1 project | /r/privacy | 10 Jun 2023
    then there is one awesome thing, that allows you to make video play through any of the online Invidious instances. https://farside.link/ where video URL looks like this: https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ opening this link will not point you to the same instance each time, it will select from the list of instances and choose one. Farside also does other frontends, not just Invidious.
  • Matrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!
    4 projects | /r/elementchat | 8 Feb 2023
    Farside.link / Invidious so that I do not send people into a datamining JavaScript hellhole.
  • How to make YouTube less distracting
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2023
    Libredirect, the extension, needs access to my data but it remains in the extension.

    Farside, as I understand it, sends clicks to https://farside.link, which will redirect to the appropriate proxy with the full URL including the path. I can't really tell because the source code of the extension isn't linked. This behaviour can only be acceptable if I set the extension to query an instance I trust (my own, for example), but at this point it's just easier to do everything in the extension itself.

  • Can I trust IP-hiding proxy services like invidious, SearX, Lingva, etc. ?
    1 project | /r/privacy | 12 Jan 2023
    If ur paran0id, self host your own instance on a VPS. Ask yourself what is worse - google knowing what you are doing, or some other individual perv knowing what you are doing? Use farside.link to distribute ur use across multiple instances...i'd say that's the best option.
  • Tim Weeney is Finally switching to Linux!
    3 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 20 Nov 2022
    I see your Nitter, and I raise you farside.link: https://farside.link/nitter/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1594135214829498368
  • Twitter users jump to Mastodon - but what is it? - BBC News
    2 projects | /r/fediverse | 13 Nov 2022
    which is a privacy redirect alternative frontend thing called farside.link that pics one of the listed Invidious instances in order to let you watch the video that BBC posted to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78RFvnrRi0
  • LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to privacy friendly services
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2022
    You can run your own farside instance as well. https://github.com/benbusby/farside

What are some alternatives?

When comparing privacy-redirect and farside you can also consider the following projects:

foss-front-ends-and-alternatives

Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

browser_extension - A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends

android-foss - A list of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Android – saving Freedom and Privacy.

whoogle-search - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end

yggdrasil - Subscription and publishing server for Elixir applications.

Redirector - Browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge) to redirect urls based on regex patterns, like a client side mod_rewrite.

alternative-front-ends - Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)

Plausible Analytics - Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.