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Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

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Post by amalantony06 »

that_guy_iain wrote: post #8

I expected this to be a project with a few developers on it. But it looks like a serious company. What I don't understand is why an electron app? Why not a SaaS app? I see the plan to make money via premium features on the phone apps but I am even more confused to why I would want to run this on my phone.

Electron app obv implies more privacy in a sense (assuming that no data is sent to their server).

You wouldn't but "average users" would prefer to run it on their phone. For example, this could turn into a social media management tool for "influencers" and celebrities - managing their social media profiles with advanced deletion conditions etc.

Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

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Post by ds »

thaliaarchi wrote: post #10

Is Redact affiliated with the EFF? The prominent “Support the EFF” banner suggests so, but the FAQ makes no mention.

No, we just believe in the mission of privacy and they seem like the biggest supporters in the business. They paved the road we now walk upon, so its due to give them something back.

*edit- Seeing comments below, I can see the issues. We will remove the 'Support the EFF' banner for now until we can do it in a better manner.

Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

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Post by trutannus »

ds wrote: post #12
thaliaarchi wrote: post #10

Is Redact affiliated with the EFF? The prominent “Support the EFF” banner suggests so, but the FAQ makes no mention.

No, we just believe in the mission of privacy and they seem like the biggest supporters in the business. They paved the road we now walk upon, so its due to give them something back. *edit- Seeing comments below, I can see the issues. We will remove the 'Support the EFF' banner for now until we can do it in a better manner.

You may want to make that clear. I took that to mean this was EFF sanctioned, and that changed how I was going to vet this before I used it. That said, I love this project.

Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

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Post by FractalHQ »

ds wrote: post #5
itake wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any ideas why your app is so big? macOS Redact is 433MB. Firefox is 370MB. Is this an artifact of electron?

Yeah, electron :)

Check out Tauri it is much an smaller and faster than electron.

Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

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Post by norcon4 »

Found this interesting from the FAQ:

> "Why don't you support anything made by Google or Apple?"

> At this time, we are reliant on both Google and Apple to be listed in their respective app stores. As such, we have been advised that in order to remain in good standing we should not offer support for these services.

What a disturbing reality these developers are up against. Even though this is a big limitation, the project is wonderful!

Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

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Post by fnord77 »

norcon4 wrote: post #16

Found this interesting from the FAQ: > "Why don't you support anything made by Google or Apple?" > At this time, we are reliant on both Google and Apple to be listed in their respective app stores. As such, we have been advised that in order to remain in good standing we should not offer support for these services. What a disturbing reality these developers are up against. Even though this is a big limitation, the pr…

facebook / twitter will complain to apple and they'll get booted.

Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

trutannus wrote: post #14
ds wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, we just believe in the mission of privacy and they seem like the biggest supporters in the business. They paved the road we now walk upon, so its due to give them something back. *edit- Seeing comments below, I can see the issues. We will remove the 'Support the EFF' banner for now until we can do it in a better manner.

You may want to make that clear. I took that to mean this was EFF sanctioned, and that changed how I was going to vet this before I used it. That said, I love this project.

I support this suggestion very strongly. Currently, it really does seem like the service is affiliated with the EFF, which is misleading.

Keeping the current design has at least two drawbacks.

- First, it makes you seem shady. After realizing that you are probably not affiliated with the EFF, I became very suspicious of the service, especially since it is closed-source.

- Second, there might be legal ramifications of "pretending" to be affiliated with the EFF.

If the banner wasn't there, I would have most likely already downloaded and started using Redact for my personal research project. It looks like a great product!

Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks

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Post by aboringusername »

If there are any Redact devs here:

Please add a feature to 'edit' messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the 'live' database but also if it's backed up in the future they'll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said.

Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit/discord let you do.

Additionally, there should be a 'spoofer' mode, that randomly makes comments, uploads multi GB files full of random data and adds noise to further enhance privacy.

I take great joy in "abusing" text areas and file upload boxes on the internet - it makes it significantly harder to track a subject in any way when you are making 1000 comments a day, uploading 10,000 photos you found randomly online and are joining 50 different channels ;)

To be honest I should probably make a script to do that, especially on HN...

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