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Hey HN- Im one of the team members at redact. Redact is a cross platform electron app which allows you to delete content programmatically from most of the big s
by ds 5y ago
Hey HN- Im one of the team members at redact. Redact is a cross platform electron app which allows you to delete content programmatically from most of the big sites out there (we are adding more every day). Meaning, you could say something like "Delete all posts I made on instagram with less than 15 likes in 2019" or (very soon) "Delete all my tweets that are political"
We have been working on this for a little over a year. As you can imagine, working with some of these legacy services is less than ideal. (looking at you skype)
When we launched, we were aware of tons of other free services that let you delete content, but we found that most of them were either unmaintained and broken, not feature rich enough or complicated for grandmas to install. "Ok, so first- download Kali linux to a thumb drive. Then reboot into it and install python and clone this repo...."
Our goal with redact is to make privacy as accessible to the general public as possible. There are tons of services that let you delete 'public' data about you (for instance, deleting your whitepages.com page) but we found very few which took care of content YOU created across more than 1 service.
- itake 5y agoAny ideas why your app is so big? macOS Redact is 433MB. Firefox is 370MB. Is this an artifact of electron?
- ds 5y agoYeah, electron :)
- FractalHQ 5y agoCheck out Tauri it is much an smaller and faster than electron.
- CharlesW 5y agoTauri vs. Electron is an apples-to-oranges comparison because Tauri uses system webviews, so you pay for that smaller runtime in both development and QA time (and possibly customer support time if you don't get those right). That's not inherently bad or good, but it's worth noting that the smaller app size is not free.
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- jarek-foksa 5y agoThis is the new normal for Electron-based apps on macOS. The Electron framework itself is ~350 MB when targeting both Intel- and M1-based Macs.
- 3ygun 5y agoDan congrats! Q: Was a reason you choose a User installed application (Electron or Mobile App) vs SaaS to avoid having to store username/password for sites and the ToS issues that result from that? Or am I off base with previous comments in another Discord? Meme Q: Were earlier versions of redact.dev so powerful they redacted the trip to Japan? :( Best wishes and #YeeAlwaysWins
- slg 5y ago>Meaning, you could say something like... "Delete all my tweets that are political" Are you open to sharing how this will be done? Are you doing analysis of the body of the posts, where they were posted, who or what they are replying to, etc? I imagine this is more difficult on some social media sites. Twitter for example is highly time sensitive. A tweet in reaction to some political news event might not have any political language in it and only reveals itself to be political when viewed in the proper context.
- beedrillzzzzz 5y agoDo services like Facebook Messenger or Twitter allow you to totally delete/redact messages, or is it just hiding the data from the user's view on one side?
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