Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration
rimu@piefed.social 1 day agoI guess if the logic for finding the posts was done on the server then you would only need one API call - the extension would just send through whatever url it had. That would be more efficient.
If this gets popular I'd be open to adding a dedicated API endpoint for this to PieFed.
Kind of a privacy nightmare though, aye. Sending your whole browser history to a third party... But that's a whole different issue.
rozodru@lemmy.world 1 day ago
…it doesn’t view the browser history at all.?
rimu@piefed.social 1 day ago
It doesn't access old browser history but from the moment it is installed onwards it sends every url you visit to 7 instances, to do a search.
thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Yeah. Interesting to think if there are ways to get around that problem. Still, very interesting work @rozodru@lemmy.world, and great idea splitting it out into an extension!
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
At a first flance, perhaps a uBlockOrigin-style control pane with per-domain toggle, so that for example you can send the info only when browsing a specific domain (let’s say, a news site; that’d be interesting to find discussion in Lemmy of). This would also prevent the issue of sending URLs that are not internet-wide (eg.: are on a localnet resolver, or an intranet).
As well as the abiity with an option send the request through a relay or proxy, to remove IP origin information that can be used to build the profile.