Nitter redirecting to a tracking site

SimonBrazell / privacy-redirect

A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.

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Nitter redirecting to a tracking site #399

Open MechanosG opened 2 years ago

MechanosG commented 2 years ago

I wish I could provide more details. But one of the default "random" nitter options, is redirecting to track.vcdc.com. I don't have to explain why that's a bad thing. I suspect it's nitter.cc based on this link that my adblocker intercepted -

https://track.vcdc.com/proceed.php?domain=nitter.cc&hash=*snip*

I haven't tested to see if any of the other options do this as well. Changing Privacy Redirect to use the nitter.net instance instead of picking a random one, fixes the issue.

alanjacobmathew commented 2 years ago

Nitter.cc is discontinued Refer: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#discontinued