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Isn't that a violation of reddit's trademarks? There is a reason apps for Reddit have to brand themselves as "XYZ for Reddit". Also, I don't quite understand w
by alex_smart 5y ago
Isn't that a violation of reddit's trademarks? There is a reason apps for Reddit have to brand themselves as "XYZ for Reddit".
Also, I don't quite understand why the requests have to be proxied through a server. Wouldn't implementing this in javascript to send requests directly client-side to reddit's apis be faster and more private? It's fast because it's rust is a dumb argument when you are adding an additional network hop to the latency which can't possibly be compensated for by the choice of the stack.
- btdmaster 5y agoIt would certainly be faster, though the idea behind the proxy is that it prevents Reddit correlating browsing habits to a specific source (assuming the one hosting the libreddit instance is deemed trustworthy).
- alex_smart 5y agohttps://reddit.com/.json https://reddit.com/.json from an incognito window shows me the exact same posts in the same order as libreddit.
- remirk 5y agoI think the argument made is regarding tracking. If I understand this architecture correctly, the use of a proxy would mean reddit can't correlate your browsing habits, as they'll be correlating all browsing habits of people using the proxy.