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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