Alternate frontends and apps
ballsofsteel.codeberg.page

Hey there👋

This is a type of website, I’ve been wanting to create for a long time. This website displays various frontends for popular services. Not only are these great for your privacy but these are actually perform very well. The pages load quickly and often use minimum or no javascript.

Another thing I want to say is that I am not a web developer. There are a lot of mistakes in what I have done. Probably what I wrote makes me look like an idiot

So please no crush me

I would appreciate if you could contribute to this project and clean it up and make it better.

  • Zerush
    3·
    3 years ago

    Respect Piped, it dont use googlevideoAPI like any other front end do. It’s a OpenSource and selfhosted app, with 2 public instances https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped Respect a Deepl, its proprietary and freemium, free version is limited. The only valid FOSS translator i’ve found is the desktop app Tunlookup, but it’s only for Win and Mac, maybe in Linux with Wine (Linux version maybe later say dev). https://thephucit.github.io/tunlookup/ All other are very limited, buggy or paid apps.

    • beta_tester
      2·
      3 years ago

      You can selfhost it, but what’s the point? Don’t you still get all the recommendations from google?

      • pineapple@sopuli.xyzOP
        2·
        3 years ago

        Piped proxies the videos. So your ip address is not revealed to google, the servers ip address is. Also thousands of other users may also use the main server. So it becomes much more difficult to track you.

        • beta_tester
          1·
          3 years ago

          Wasn’t that my point in the first place? You need to trust piped. If you selfhost, it’s just you

    • beta_tester
      1·
      3 years ago

      Yes, it’s proprietary but there is no real foss alternative that is actually that good. I’ll have a look into tunlookup but if it’s only for win and mac it’s not that practicle. Everyone needs a solution, at least for android. Reducing the power of google is more important than foss/proprietary and linguee doesn’t abuse it’s power in the sense thst google does.

      • Zerush
        1·
        3 years ago

        The inbuild translator in Vivaldi is from Lingvanex, good for page translations. Tunlookup is a Desktop app, but work the same as an extension do, selected text apears in the translator when you open it with the fast keys or clicking in the icon. For me it works better than Deepl. I think the same, avoid Google is more important as FOSS or not, but is better use FOSS if it’s equal or better than proprietary apps. In Vivaldi I can view YT in it’s feed reader, which use it embedded anonymously, otherwise I use most Piped or the desktop client FreeTube, both use proxie.