UnScripted...

A guide to navigating the web without JavaScript

Last updated: January 30, 2026
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Startpage Privacy focused commercial search engine
Mojeek Independent commercial search engine with no tracking
DuckDuckGo Lite Privacy focused, commercial ad-supported search engine
GOOD search Private and without advertising, charitable foundation
Ghostery Private search from Ghostery (commercial)
Marginalia Small non-corporate independent search engine
FrogFind The search engine for vintage computers (non-https)
Wiby Non-commercial search engine for small websites
Right Dao Independent, Uncensored, Private Search
Search My Site Search engine for personal websites
SearX SearX metasearch engine random redirector
SearX FS SearX redirector from Farside
SearXNG Official list of SearXNG instances
SearXNG FS SearXNG redirector from Farside
Araa Araa/TailsX Meta search engine (instances)
LibreY Privacy respecting meta search engine (instances)
LibreY FS LibreY redirector from Farside
4Get Privacy oriented metasearch engine (instances)
4Get FS 4Get redirector from Farside
Websurfx Private, secure meta search engine (instances)
Whoogle Another meta search engine based on Leta (instances)
Whoogle FS Whoogle redirector from Farside
Fynd A search engine powered by independent crawlers

Tube

Invidious Open source alternative front-end to YouTube (instances)
Invidious FS Invidious redirector from Farside
Idiotbox Youtube search/frontend
SimpleerTube Simple frontend for PeerTube
CloudTube Alternative front-end for YouTube
Librarian Alternative frontend for LBRY/Odysee (instances)
Librarian FS Librarian redirector from Farside
Libremdb Free & open source IMDb front-end (instances)
Libremdb FS Libremdb redirector from Farside

Social

Redlib Alternative private front-end to Reddit (instances)
Libreddit FS Libreddit redirector from Farside
eddrit Lightweight alternative frontend for Reddit
Brutaldon Brutalist web interface for Mastodon
Lemmy Forum and link aggregator for the fediverse (instances)
Friendica A Decentralized Social Network (instances)
Tildes Non-profit community site
Lobsters Computing-focused community

Wiki

Wikimore Simple frontend for Wikimedia projects (instances)
Wikiless Free, open-source Wikipedia alternative
Wikiless FS Wikiless redirector from Farside
Kiwix-Zaggy.nl Kiwix server with a Wikipedia mirror and more
Kiwix-osmarks Kiwix server with a Wikipedia mirror and more
Kiwix-miningtcup Kiwix server with a Wikipedia mirror and more
Kiwix-benpruyne Kiwix server with a Wikipedia mirror and more
BreezeWiki Fandom Wiki frontend (instances)
BreezeWiki FS BreezeWiki redirector from Farside

RSS

RSS-Bridge Generates feeds for websites (instances)
rssrdr The simplest RSS reader on the planet

Translate

SimplyTranslate Privacy friendly frontend for Translation (instances)
SimplyTranslate2 SimplyTranslate redirector from Farside
Mozhi Alternative-frontend for translation engines (instances)
TransLite Simple and lightweight translation frontend (instances)

Music

Tent Simple alternative front-end for Bandcamp (instances)
Tent FS Tent redirector from Farside
Dumb Genius lyrics frontend (instances)
Dumb FS Dumb redirector from Farside
Intellectual Frontend for Genius (instances)

Pastebin

FlashPaper Self-Destructing Message paste bin
Bin (BasedBin) Highly opinionated, minimal pastebin
Wastebin Minimal pastebin

Misc

Gdir Text-based Google Directions
Anon.Overflow StackOverflow proxy (instances)
Overflow FS AnonymousOverflow redirector from Farside
Wayback Classic Wayback Machine frontend for old browsers
Quetre Alternative front-end to Quora (instances)
Quetre FS Quetre redirector from Farside
Rural Dictionary Privacy respecting urban dictionary client (instances)
Structables Instructables frontend (instances)
Rimgo Alternative frontend for Imgur (instances)
Rimgo FS Rimgo redirector from Farside
Priviblur Alternative frontend to Tumblr (instances)
GotHub An alternative front-end for GitHub (instances)
GotHub FS GotHub redirector from Farside
Scribe An alternative frontend to Medium
Scribe FS Scribe redirector from Farside
wttr.in Console-oriented weather forecast service
PlainTextSports Plain-text sports scores and schedules
SmolWeb tester Site validator for the 'SmolWeb' guidelines

Directories

Farside Aggregator/redirector for various service instances
PrivacyRedirect Redirector for various service instances
Seirdy Seirdy's list of search engines
searchengine.party Search engine list ranked by features
LibRedirect Alternative privacy-friendly frontends
Awesome Alt. Open Source alternative front-ends
Alt. Front Ends Alternative open source front-ends
Curlie The largest human-edited Web directory
jsfree.org Web services that work without JavaScript
Text-only news Greycoder's list of text-only news sites
eink.link Websites that work well on basic web browsers
Text Only News Text based news sites

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