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You can run it yourself, and audit the source if you like: https://github.com/simonfrey/unshort.link/ https://github.com/simonfrey/unshort.link/
by notduncansmith 7y ago
You can run it yourself, and audit the source if you like: https://github.com/simonfrey/unshort.link/ https://github.com/simonfrey/unshort.link/
- eat_veggies 7y agoIf you run it yourself, do you not lose some of the privacy benefits?
- notduncansmith 7y agoI believe you gain privacy by running it yourself, since you're no longer submitting a portion of your browsing history to a third party. The README for the server claims "You can build & run it yourself for even better privacy".
- OJFord 7y agoShorteners are frequently used to hide/prettify query parameters used for tracking; so if you run your own you're losing the aggregate anonymity-ish, and gaining that OP can't see what URLs you're unshortening. I suppose it depends on your use, but IMO if you run it yourself as the only user, you lose more privacy than you gain.
- notduncansmith 7y agoIf the website you're ultimately visiting can see your IP address anyways, I fail to see the lost privacy. Their traffic will be sliced and diced into cohorts along many axes, and this is only one axis on which you are slightly anomalous. If anything, you'll be targeted less as a result since you won't show up in their funnels.