

it tries to check which instances are offline, to only redirect you to working ones. reddit can be redirected to libreddit/redlib, which makes reddit unable to track you, and these frontends are also much lighter on resources (ram, cpu, network traffic, cognitive load)
yeah and also my impression was that it kind of talks about the horrors mass surveillance brings and tries to spread awareness. I was disappointed when my favorite streamer, a Cory Doctorow reader and someone who has a crossed out surveillance camera as their steam profile pic, was just bitching about how it runs and some of the bugs it had, while saying nothing about the story. But at the same time it was kind of expected, they live off of google (youtube) and amazon (twitch) money for a long time now…