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#GM Good morning, #nostr! Had a nice ruck early this morning and now ready to tackle today.

Had a thought:

nostr:npub1c4vv0nrfh0drcfchs2mndw4uvjkd9k393v20x4kme2txev9hhz0qw4cqk7 is an awesome bot that identifies and removes tracking links. Two suggestions:

1) Incorporate into Nostr clients to give option to warn or scrub the tracking UTM code from links

2) Integrate farside.link’s smart redirection code to give users the option to visit a #privacy respecting front end for shared links, such as Invidious.io

See:

https://farside.link/

https://github.com/benbusby/farside

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negr0 1y ago

GM 🫂☕

𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠 1y ago

I especially like the first idea.

I’m sure I’d like the second one too if I understood it as well 😂

ContrarianAgrarian 1y ago

Haha, well try it out:

https://farside.link/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oksraL7wN6Q

Every time you click the link it will redirect this YouTube link to a different YouTube proxy service. This spreads out traffic instead of linking to one specific Invidious or Piped instance.

Zorbar 1y ago

ContrarianAgrarian 1y ago

nostr:npub1z9n5ktfjrlpyywds9t7ljekr9cm9jjnzs27h702te5fy8p2c4dgs5zvycf thanks for your work on the project 🤙🫂

Felix 1y ago

Thanks, these are good ideas👀 Regarding 2) I like the idea but am not yet sure how to integrate it as I want to keep the user experience easy.

On mobile for example its nice if your YouTube app opens the URL (e.g. newpipe) which doesn't happen with alternative frontends.

Maybe as additional URL but then the reply could get confusing or cluttered for some.

Really hoping to see clients do this at one point.