edit: one of my previous attempt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35229211
I actually have made it extensible, with closely coupled source of rules and domains; but then I lost it Edge forgot all my userscripts :(
And most user scripts are so long a typical user won't be able to spot a couple of malicious lines amongst 10k lines of minified webpacked libraries.
Exactly!
That's why you should use 3 lines for it instead that are
- inspectable
- not updateable by the Chinese/Russians
- written by you anywayFor example, if you use FreeTube with SponsorBlock to improve your privacy and block ads, in fact you are sending to Cloudflare 100% of your YouTube watch history, and to SponsorBlock ("sponsor.ajay.io").
With Piped instances it's even worse, essentially escaping Google's tracking just to give our data to random strangers.
If you are worried, just run a second Chrome session with NordVPN and uBlock Origin in a loose jurisdiction and browse YouTube unlogged.
It's easy, simple, and you have the benefits of an audited platform and that reasonably legally confirm they don't store logs unless the court forced them: "we never log their activity unless ordered by a court never log their activity unless ordered by a court", but for that, the court has to find you as a user, which can be very complicated in practice.
So much better than random strangers.
I feel like I’m on YouTube already.
It’s not like they are free of criticism either.
Using venrable farside.link
https://sr.ht/~benbusby/farside/
Why use your offering?
Privacy Redirect was prob the first extension that introduced this idea. It did the job as well but up until bad-actors figured out they can redirect people to their dangerous sites.
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