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Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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Oh neat, I will add it to this list, when I come online l8r today! https://github.com/KeyboardInterrupt/awesome-little-online-h... This is exactly the kind of Website I was looking for, when I started that List a good while back. :) Ty!

That's awesome, thank you :)

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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There is way too little on that site about why we should trust these tools. No way I’m going to download and run stuff from some random source that I know nothing about.

That's fair, what would you want to see safety-wise? Whole point of it is to make something safe and reliable

How can users be sure that their inputs are not being saved somewhere on the backend? If I paste a bunch of content into these forms, and it inadvertently has some sensitive data in it, such as a credential or key of some kind, how do I know that isn't a data breech?

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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Does The Youtube downloader work? BTW this reminds me of excellent https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

Ah it's buggy, youtube really doesn't like their videos being downloaded. Built it with yt-dlp library. Continuously tweaking it

As a heads up, you might soon need a JS runtime to make it work[1]. You might have to tweak even more (:

[1]https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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post #12

Embeds Google Tag Manager

I do have analytics on it to see what pages/tools are most visited

I've had good luck with https://www.goatcounter.com/ for my personal site. I found it from this thread from several years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's fair, what would you want to see safety-wise? Whole point of it is to make something safe and reliable

How can users be sure that their inputs are not being saved somewhere on the backend? If I paste a bunch of content into these forms, and it inadvertently has some sensitive data in it, such as a credential or key of some kind, how do I know that isn't a data breech?

If you don’t already know the answer to that question (e.g. monitoring network calls in your browser), why would you trust an answer from the same service providing the tools?
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