Re:LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to priv...
by geoffeg on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @05:42PM
(#32918183)
I've considered hosting my own Nitter and Bibliogram instances but I have to wonder if that reduces their privacy veil a bit. Wouldn't the requests from those instances be coming from a single IP, thereby potentially allowing their respective services to still track you? (Sure, you're avoiding the analytics from those service's web front-ends or apps but that can probably mostly be achieved by disabling JS.) I've considered adding a VPN or TOR gateway between the nitter and bibliogram instances I host to make them harder to track.
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Re:LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to priv...
by midasz on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:04AM
(#32924554)
For twitter to me, it's not even about privacy - the regular frontend without being logged in is unusable. My instances are hosted publicly but I don't advertise them. I guess if people fancy it they are free to check it out, but would prefer it not to end up on any lists: https://midas.rocks/
Re:LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to priv...
by perlgod on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @06:11PM
(#32918498)
I agree. If you're the only user of your instance, they can easily track you server-side by your IP address. You could mitigate this by routing your egress traffic (either from the individual device or network-wide, from your router) through a VPN.
Re:LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to priv...
by dvzk on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:20AM
(#32921071)
It’s really not that much extra work to automatically rotate VPS IPs or VPN relays on an hourly or daily interval. Since most Invidious/Nitter guides don’t recommend doing this I guess it’s not very common.
Just remember that you’re still technically trackable via behavioral, configuration, or latency fingerprinting. Anonymity is a full-time academic endeavor, not a shell script one-liner.