SOLVED Why does Kutt use so many google services?

[robi]

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?

[girish]

I guess you mean the usage of google fonts and things like that? This is probably best reported upstream. There is already

• https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt/issues/373 (Google fonts)
• https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt/issues/235 (Matomo)

[robi]

@girish ah it was for the ReCaptchas which I never saw since it's blocked here. Thanks.

[marcusquinn]

For interest, I'm finding https://www.localcdn.org handy for filtering out that sort of trojan tracking plague from the web browser at-least.

[robi]

@marcusquinn uMatrix browser extension does it for me.

[marcusquinn]

@robi Looks like uMatrix is something different, more like uBlock Origin, which seems to work well enough coupled with LocalCDN, also seems to be EOL'd:

• https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/20/umatrix-development-has-ended/

[yusf]

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

usage of google fonts and things like that

On that topic it would be really cool to have a feature in Cloudron similar to what LocalCDN does in the user's browser, blocking or limiting tracking and data harvesting exposure to FAANG and others.

[marcusquinn]

@yusf Interesting idea! Maybe worth just suggesting it to the author that there would be interest in a server-side version: https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN/issues

Maybe @Lonk with his OpenVPN project would have ideas on this too?

[Lonk]

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

@yusf Interesting idea! Maybe worth just suggesting it to the author that there would be interest in a server-side version: https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN/issues

Maybe @Lonk with his OpenVPN project would have ideas on this too?

I couldn't think of any more features to add aside from new protocols, but this would increase speed (especially important over VPN), and reduce tracking. I'd have to find a way to intercept and deliver "local" VPN Client packages / fonts / etc. I'll have to research how LocalCDN does it. I'm also going to start using LocalCDN, it's brilliant.

How do you find all of these amazing products?

[yusf]

I didn’t mean for it to be another Cloudron app. Instead I meant implementing it as a service layer directly in Cloudron.

[marcusquinn]

@lonk been online as long as the internet And, recently very much woke to the privacy issues when these behemoths behave like drunks in a brewery for their data-mining through so many browser trojans by proxy.