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.

  • beta_tester
    10·
    3 years ago

    If you still use google services like google translate but with another front end, you still give google all the power. You don’t support an alternative and there never will be one, if you still use google.

      • beta_tester
        5·
        3 years ago

        I agree. I support firefox.

        What I do not know is which browser or engine is actually better? Because if chromium is actuall better wouldn’t it be benefitial (even for firefox) to fork it and just go their own ways after the fork? But as I said, I have not the expertise to judge that.

        • obbeel
          3·
          3 years ago

          If you fork Chromium, you’re subjected to all that it has coded before, after all you’ll use it as a base. Also, to the Chromium license.

          Chromium is better than Firefox in some ways, but I think it’s less work to fork from Firefox, if you want a anti big tech alternative. Bromite is a Chromium fork that supposedly works for privacy, but I don’t know.

          I use Pale Moon, which forks from Firefox 68. Still trying to make extensions work, but maybe it’s worth the extra work.

          • beta_tester
            2·
            3 years ago

            The chromium licensing might be a problem. Bromite is good but it’s only on android and 1. I’d like to support firefox. I use mull.

            What’s the advantage of pale moon? A very good pre hardened firefox fork is librewolf. All extensions work.

            • obbeel
              2·
              3 years ago

              I use Pale Moon because it’s somewhat popular, because it is an independent fork, and people who care about privacy seem to like it. I changed from Firefox because, with all the deals with Google, I don’t trust Mozilla/Firefox as an Open Source Project anymore. I want something developed by people who actually care about these things (privacy, freedom, etc.), not development bound by contracts with Big Tech.

              GNU IceCat might be cool too.