<![CDATA[Why does Kutt use so many google services?]]>For being self hosted and disconnected from the spying services, it has too many references to Google APIs and analytics.

Can those be cleansed or removed?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3670/why-does-kutt-use-so-many-google-servicesRSS for NodeMon, 08 Jun 2026 16:44:19 GMTTue, 10 Nov 2020 20:19:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:12:47 GMT]]>@sponch the problem with that is though that those are automatically applied. I think the documentation is clear and easy enough to understand

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100153https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100153Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:12:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:21:46 GMT]]>I think it would be easier if the custom folder would already contain example files. I had to get them from GitHub.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100148https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100148Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:21:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:20:20 GMT]]>@andreasdueren Hope the custom folder is not being overwritten during the next update ...

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100147https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100147Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:20:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:14:35 GMT]]>@sponch Strange. But since it was a new install anyways this wasn't an issue for me.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100146https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100146Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:14:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:13:12 GMT]]>I had to manually add the custom files and it worked.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100145https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100145Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:13:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:11:15 GMT]]>@sponch Updating didn't work, even if I manually created the custom folder. I had to reinstall unfortunately.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100144https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100144Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:11:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:48:40 GMT]]>@andreasdueren any hint how to do it? just updated ..

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100114https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100114Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:48:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:37:34 GMT]]>@poeti8 Shipping fast, I'm digging the customizability!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100113https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100113Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:37:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Fri, 17 Jan 2025 07:28:52 GMT]]>https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt Kutt 3.1 available. @girish @nebulon

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100089https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100089Fri, 17 Jan 2025 07:28:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:34:27 GMT]]>@sponch Nope

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100078https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100078Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:34:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:55:25 GMT]]>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?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100076https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100076Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:55:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:42:38 GMT]]>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

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100075https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100075Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:42:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:05:57 GMT]]>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

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100071https://forum.cloudron.io/post/100071Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:05:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:58:50 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99920https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99920Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:58:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:52 GMT]]>@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?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99917https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99917Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:39:38 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99890https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99890Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:39:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:22:19 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59759https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59759Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:22:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:38:02 GMT]]>@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

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

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59614https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59614Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:38:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 07 Jan 2023 20:19:33 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59568https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59568Sat, 07 Jan 2023 20:19:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:44:49 GMT]]>I've generally solved that problem by using the LocalCDN browser extension which blocks such requests from any sites.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59559https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59559Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:44:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 07 Jan 2023 17:54:21 GMT]]>@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://forum.cloudron.io/post/59557https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59557Sat, 07 Jan 2023 17:54:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 07 Jan 2023 14:52:51 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59548https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59548Sat, 07 Jan 2023 14:52:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 07 Jan 2023 10:13:09 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59523https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59523Sat, 07 Jan 2023 10:13:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why does Kutt use so many google services? on Sat, 07 Jan 2023 09:15:45 GMT]]>@JOduMonT Define home for a self-hosted system serving up the JS. Also, which API, self-hosted or otherwise?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59521https://forum.cloudron.io/post/59521Sat, 07 Jan 2023 09:15:45 GMT