# Private Frontends Are Not That Good

If you think of them as software, all the frontends do are just pr
oxying a proprietary software and showing a lightweight UI. At the
end, you are just using a proprietary software. It is quite obviou
s, but I have realized only after the recent twitter happening. My
Nitter RSS feeds suddenly died.

Because of this, I have changed all the frontend links on my site.
There weren't too many links though. An exception is links to Goth
ub because it gives you source code.

For Wikiless, I just downloaded the documents on Gopherpedia and u
ploaded to this website. For Invidious and Librarian, I downloaded
the videos and uploaded to Anonfiles. Because currently I don't kn
ow a better option. At least it is not a platform. The main appeal
was that it provides an API. So you don't have to use JS to upload
files. To download, you don't need JS anyway. You can use Tor too.


Anyway a simple script is here. You can make it as a function too:

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#!/usr/local/bin/rc

curl -F 'file=@'$1 'https://api.anonfiles.com/upload'
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I named this script 'anon'. You can use it like this:

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; anon 20230330__mbti_test__hks.webm
{
        "status": true,
        "data": {
                "file": {
                        "metadata": {
                                "id": "rc942052z5",
                                "size": {
                                        "readable": "297.22 MB",
                                        "bytes": 311656180
                                },
                                "name": "20230330__mbti_test__hks.webm"
                        },
                        "url": {
                                "full": "https:\/\/anonfiles.com\/rc942052z5\/20230330_mbti_test_hks_webm",
                                "short": "https:\/\/anonfiles.com\/rc942052z5"
                        }
                }
        }
}
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The URLs are both "https://anonfiles.com/rc942052z5" and "https://
anonfiles.com/rc942052z5/20230330_mbti_test_hks_webm". If you go t
o one of the links, there is a download link. You can use mpv to p
lay the link. However I can't use those download links directly si
nce those links constantly change. You have to visit the main link
first. Or write a script that extracts the download link.


I also have deleted the links to websites which require Cloudflare
 or non-free JS. I hope my website is almost clean now.


P.S) Anonfiles is dead.