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Re:The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website by gruez on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:37AM (#24638553)
> Something like ngrok could help there, with good network sandboxing on the user's local device.

ngrok only works because there's a company willing to proxy someone's traffic for free. In that sense "using ngrok" doesn't solve the issue, it only pushes the problem to someone else.

Re:The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website by jka on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:53AM (#24638698)
It's not an ideal long-term architecture, sure. It'd be better to have website search, discovery and routing possible without routing tricks.

Sometimes you have to make do with what's available currently while preparing the future possibilities.