Rudxain (talk | contribs)
Gopher is MUCH older than HTTP and browser bloat
Rudxain (talk | contribs)
Tools are user-side (for now)
 
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*[https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app Rethink], [[wikipedia:Domain_Name_System|DNS]] + Firewall + [[wikipedia:Virtual_private_network|VPN]] for Android. Can use local and remote DNS.
*[https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app Rethink], [[wikipedia:Domain_Name_System|DNS]] + Firewall + [[wikipedia:Virtual_private_network|VPN]] for Android. Can use local and remote DNS.
*[[wikipedia:Youtube-dl|youtube-dl]] & [https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp YT-DLP]. Audio/Video downloaders or "[[wikipedia:Ripping|rippers]]". Similarly to LibRedirect, it can be used to avoid bloat, by simply downloading the main content of a page. There's also <code>--get-url</code>/<code>--print urls</code> options that can be used to open the URL of the media in a browser, effectively streaming it, without a customized player
*[[wikipedia:Youtube-dl|youtube-dl]] & [https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp YT-DLP]. Audio/Video downloaders or "[[wikipedia:Ripping|rippers]]". Similarly to LibRedirect, it can be used to avoid bloat, by simply downloading the main content of a page. There's also <code>--get-url</code>/<code>--print urls</code> options that can be used to open the URL of the media in a browser, effectively streaming it, without a customized player
Note that those tools only help ''users'', they don't reduce bloat on the ''development'' side.


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