Why does Kutt use so many google services?

[JOduMonT]

@robi said in Why does Kutt use so many google services?:

spying services

do you also consider the JS trap ?

[robi]

@JOduMonT for what reason?

[JOduMonT]

@robi said in Why does Kutt use so many google services?:

@JOduMonT for what reason?

JS ping home such as API

[robi]

@JOduMonT Define home for a self-hosted system serving up the JS. Also, which API, self-hosted or otherwise?

[girish]

@andreasdueren I think maintaining upstream patches is out of scope for us (unless it's some serious temporary bug). Are you able to report this upstream? For example, https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt/commit/4e672a8b51e741f0f276fab999d622dc5337ca88 removed GA, so maybe they are open to this.

[andreasdueren]

@girish Understandable. Unfortunately it looks like the maintainers don't seem to be very interested in removing GA seeing these issues being open for a while now. Maybe I have to go back to yourls

[timconsidine]

@andreasdueren I missed the original post, but shall now look to move away from Kutt. Shame because it looks nice and works well, but I can't tolerate anything built around Google services.

Yourls works but is just ugly and dated (IMHO).

Looking at alternatives :

• https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink (Dockerfile √)
  (wishlist https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2325/shlink-modern-url-shortener?lang=en-GB)
• https://github.com/muety/anchr (Dockerfile √)
• https://github.com/ldidry/lstu (Dockerfile √)
• https://github.com/urlhum/urlhum (Dockerfile √)
• https://github.com/steven-tey/dub (no Dockerfile)
  (wishlist https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/7719/dub-an-open-source-bit-ly-alternative-for-url-redirection?lang=en-GB)
• https://github.com/cmpct-io (no Dockerfile )
• https://github.com/origranot/reduced.to (no Dockerfile)
• https://github.com/webfuelcode/link2u (script)

[robi]

I've generally solved that problem by using the LocalCDN browser extension which blocks such requests from any sites.

[jdaviescoates]

@andreasdueren said in Why does Kutt use so many google services?:

yourls

I prefer that anyway because you can customise the homepage of the domain

Kutt has a nicer UI, but I don't see the need for a nice UI for such a simple tool. I just need to be able to create shortlink and track how many clicks they get and YOURLS does that perfectly fine imho.

[andreasdueren]

@timconsidine I'm currently looking more into shlink which ticks a lot of boxes. It looks like this could potentially run in a lamp stack if no one ports it for cloudron it seems

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Edit: Seems to run well in a lamp stack. Now my only Problem is that there is no public facing UI and user accounts

[JOduMonT]

@robi said in Why does Kutt use so many google services?:

@JOduMonT Define home for a self-hosted system serving up the JS. Also, which API, self-hosted or otherwise?

we might be lost in the translation/transmission
when I said ping home; I meant phone home to make a connection so if you don't localize your JS, the provider notice you (ping)

otherwise it was just to raise awareness on JS such as Stallman did years ago and now https://openjsf.org do.

[poeti8]

Hello everyone,
I'm the creator of Kutt and I just somehow stumbled across this forum post.
I wanted to let you know that everything related to Google was removed in the version 3 of the app, which was released a few days ago.
I also wanted to say that I'm happy to see you took interest in Kutt. I hope you like the new version too.

[humptydumpty]

@poeti8 I switched to Yourls because of the Google references and the higher resource requirement to run Kutt. I know the idle usage is probably the same, but any reason why the recommended RAM is 1GB vs 256 MB for Yourls?

[andreasdueren]

@humptydumpty @poeti8 Same here. Another big reason was the customizability. I need to be able to choose a favicon and control the design and content of the landing page.

[sponch]

Just in contact with @poeti8 because of customization. He released a developer built on GitHub and aksed me to test. As I am a total noob (that's why I am on cloudron maybe anyone of you can test. Here is the link https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt/tree/develop?tab=readme-ov-file#themes-and-customizations

[poeti8]

Thanks @sponch, I added development build on Docker in case anyone wants to test. I'll publish this change soon, if you have any opinions let me know.

https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/kutt/kutt

[sponch]

Sounds great @poeti8 Thanks for your fast action While we have you here: are there any other trackers or measurement tools (Google was removed, after all) that we should point out in the privacy policy?

[poeti8]

@sponch Nope

[sponch]

https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt Kutt 3.1 available. @girish @nebulon

[andreasdueren]

@poeti8 Shipping fast, I'm digging the customizability!