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 Farside is an amazing free tool!

Here’s how it works:

Front-ends are hosted instances of open source software that allow you to view content, which normally has surveillance, through a new interface.  Now you can use Tor and turn off JavaScript (JS is used to fingerprint and identify)

No JS
Nitter = Twitter
Scribe = Medium
SearXNG = Search engines
Wikiless = Wikipedia
Teddit & Libreddit = Reddit
LibreX = Torrents

With JS
Invidious & Piped = Youtube
Librarian = Odysee

The problem with front ends is that the real service blocks many instances of it.  (For example Twitter will block a given Nitter instance).  Farside.link not only keeps you up to date with a list of working instances, but it will automatically serve you a new instance by going to farside.link/service

So for example farside.link/nitter
Or set your homepage search to farside.link/searxng

Here’s the wicked part, you can share a specific post with a friend by filling in the rest of the URL with farside, so your friend sees a different instance of the same content.  This hides from both the services and front-ends, that you and your friend know each other!

So for example, farside.link/nitter/snowden

 
 Wow, this is truly amazing. Thanks for sharing! 
 Are there sources where to find the onion sites of these hosted instances? Would be amazing if these were also added to the page with links.