It seems like the main benefit of such frontends is the lack of trackers and fingerprinting, but what if the browser, like Firefox, already did that with UBlock Origin and fingerprinting protection?
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Think about performance improvement since the frontend does not load things which gets deleted by an addon, so it’s lighter on resources.
Talking about privacy, using a frontend prevents Google from getting your IP.
Reddit’s performance is actually unusable on mobile unless you use infinity
That’s not entirely correct, invidious doesn’t act as a proxy. From the invidious faq:
That’s invidious, piped actually act as a proxy (which is what I use).
Thanks for pointing out.