Replace all tracking (short)links + use Nitter and Invidious

[lapineige]

Hello,

In order to protect the privacy of Fediverse users, it would be great to implement the following improvements:

• Replace any twitter tracking link by the final link. The same goes for any short link in the original tweet.
• Replace twitter links by a link to a Nitter instance https://github.com/zedeus/nitter. For instance https://nitter.net/, but I'd be better to use another instance (or randomly use an instance in a list ?) to help decentralising this service. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
• Replace youtube videos links by a link to an Invidious instance. Again it'd be better to pick a different instance than the official one: https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/wiki/Invidious-Instances

This would reduce tracking, allow people who don't know about Nitter and Invidious to be protected by default, and also reduce the amount of data transported across the network and maybe reduce page loading time.

Thank you in advance

[frju365]

Ok. Seems "simple" to do. Will see if I achieve to do it.

[lapineige]

Maybe it can be separated in several tasks. I'd say the first one is the most useful right now, as there is no way to bypass the shortlinks (while for the 2 others we can use extensions).

[raphgilles]

Hello.

Some news about this request ?

[Psycojoker]

Hello, I'm personally not really working on this software anymore/right now but I would be happy to merge a PR for it and do a release. I'm ready to provide help and pointers in the code if wanted. Kind regards, 17 janv. 2021 22:13:35 Raph <[email protected]>:

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