wrp VS reddio

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp allows you to use modern js as well, as long as you can render images

I use this for retrocomputing, in a way, to be very silly! tenox7's WRP [Web Rendering Proxy] basically runs headless Chrome and renders pages to gif/png/jpg and shoves them back at a client browser.

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp

Just like the PowerBook G3 Pismo I have, the iBook uses commonly available 18650 cells, so it's easy to rebuild the battery. With built-in AirPort antennas, you can add an AirPort card and get WiFi (has to be Wireless B though, and sometimes there are issues with encryption so you usually have to run an open access point to connect). Now this is the crazy part, but you can run Web Rendering Proxy on a Raspberry Pi or other, more powerful machine, then use an old browser like Internet Explorer to browse the web. It mostly works, and it's a pretty fun way to get some strange looks in the coffee shop.

Depending on what you're trying to do, you can use a "vintage" web browser and something like Web Rendering Proxy to make the page work.

https://gitlab.com/aaronNG/reddio looks like it might be a decent, maintained alternative.

Which one? There's cortex and cReddit and reddio and rttt and rtv and tuir.

I just found https://gitlab.com/aaronNG/reddio.

For websites, I use an extension called LibreJS to block nonfree JavaScript. It seems that most sites work without nonfree JavaScript, though sometimes you have to explicitly block the site in LibreJS to force noscript tags to appear. It's hard to say for sure how many sites require nonfree JavaScript though, as since I don't tend to re-visit sites that require it, all the sites I regularly use work without nonfree nontrivial JavaScript. Often LibreJS doesn't detect free scripts as free so I have to mark them myself, but on most sites I don't need to do this (On Reddit specifically, there's one script that LibreJS marks as nontrivial, $(this).parent().submit(), but I consider that trivial myself because it's so short. I also use Reddit Enhancement Suite which might make some things work better too. Occasionally the site breaks for some reason, in which case I use reddio (git clone the URL to avoid JavaScript).). I also use an extension called LibRedirect which redirects some sites that require JavaScript to some that don't. For email I still use Google from before I was avoiding nonfree software, but I connect using a free software IMAP client.

I'm on my phone right now, so I'm using Slide (a 3-rd party reddit client), but on PC I usually use reddio.

Technically speaking, this may be true, but most of the scripts I have enabled are trivial scripts. The only whitelisted script (on this page) I have currently is $(this).parent().submit() (needed for submitting comments). I think triviality is subjective to some extent, and I consider that whitelisted script trivial. I also use Reddit Enhancement Suite and I think that might help with some things that would otherwise require nonfree JavaScript. For some reason, old.reddit sometimes doesn't let me interact (expand comments, post comments, upvote, join the subreddit), and I'm not sure why it sometimes doesn't work (seems to break more often on posts than permalinks to comments or subreddit pages), but in those cases I can use reddio (git clone that link to avoid GitLab's JS).

My understanding is that the Reddit client used to be free, but it isn't anymore. I think there is no way to create an account on Reddit using free software today, but you can post/comment using reddio (git clone it to avoid nonfree JS) or sometimes using RES + LibreJS and whitelisting a few simple scripts (e.g. $(this).parent().submit() at the simplest). Given that it is possible to use Reddit with free software if you already have an account, I think it is okay to keep using it. It would be good if someone added account registration functionality to reddio though, so that more people could participate.

there's also reddio

Of course this exists