# Alternative privacy friendly frontends

Using services from likes of Google or Facebook is highly discouraged and you should always look into open alternatives which can be found e.g. at https://www.privacytools.io/ however it's possible to use these proprietary services in more privacy friendly way and such alternatives are listed here.

Note on IM: try avoiding closed instant messaging at all cost, I will not discuss those here, but e.g. Matrix has many bridges https://matrix.org/bridges/ still you need to identify into the network, well.

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### Facebook

#### android

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.pitchedapps.frost/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.zeeroooo.materialfb/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/it.rignanese.leo.slimfacebook/

#### web

https://nofb.pw/ [not really good atm]

### Google search

#### web

https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
instances - https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/user/public_instances.html
[https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search) meant for self-hosting

### Instagram

#### web

##### bibliogram
https://github.com/cloudrac3r/bibliogram
example https://bibliogram.snopyta.org/u/instagram/
instances https://github.com/cloudrac3r/bibliogram/wiki/Instances

##### saveig
https://saveig.org

### Reddit

#### android

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aaronhalbert.nosurfforreddit/

#### web

https://gitlab.com/xeddit/xeddit/
example https://www.xeddit.com/

### Twitter

#### android

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.moko256.twitlatte/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.digisocken.reotwe/

#### web

https://nitter.net/

### URL unshorteners

#### web

https://github.com/simonfrey/unshort.link/
example https://unshort.link/

### Youtube

#### android

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/cz.martykan.webtube/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/deep.ryd.rydplayer/

#### web

https://github.com/omarroth/invidious
example invidio.us/
instances - https://instances.invidio.us/