UnScripted

A guide to navigating the web without JavaScript


Last updated: January 1, 2026


Search Tube Social Wiki RSS Lang Music Paste Misc Dirs
Startpage Private Search Engine. No Tracking. No Search History.
Mojeek Independent search engine with no tracking
GOOD search Web search without advertising. Independent, private.
Ghostery Ghostery private search
Marginalia Search engine which prefers text-heavy websites
FrogFind The search engine for vintage computers (non-https)
Wiby 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
SearXNG Official list of SearX instances
Araa Araa/TailsX Meta search engine (instances)
LibreY Privacy respecting meta search engine (instances)
4Get Privacy oriented metasearch engine (instances)
Websurfx Private, secure meta search engine (instances)
Whoogle Another meta search engine based on Leta (instances)

Tube

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

Social

Redlib Alternative private front-end to Reddit (instances)
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
Scribe An alternative frontend to Medium

Wiki

Wikimore Simple frontend for Wikimedia projects (instances)
Wikiless Free, open-source Wikipedia alternative
Kiwix 1 Kiwix server with a Wikipedia mirror and more
Kiwix 2 Kiwix server with a Wikipedia mirror and more
Kiwix 3 Kiwix server with a Wikipedia mirror and more
Kiwix 4 Kiwix server with a Wikipedia mirror and more
BreezeWiki Fandom Wiki frontend (instances)

RSS

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

Translate

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

Music

Tent Simple alternative front-end for Bandcamp (instances)
Dumb Genius lyrics frontend (instances)
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)
Wayback Classic Wayback Machine frontend for old browsers
Quetre Alternative front-end to Quora (instances)
Rural Dictionary Privacy respecting urban dictionary client (instances)
Structables Instructables frontend (instances)
Rimgo Alternative frontend for Imgur (instances)
Priviblur Alternative frontend to Tumblr (instances)
GotHub An alternative front-end for GitHub (instances)
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 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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