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lucasgonze / sQratch

Private browser-based text editor with zero tracking and near-instantaneous load time.
https://sQratch.us
Apache License 2.0
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Feature: private-ish link shortening using purl.org #31

Closed lucasgonze closed 8 months ago

lucasgonze commented 8 months ago

Link shortening is valuable for space saving within a limited buffer like a tweet or a text message, or just for readability. It's usually a privacy loss, though, because the shorteners track both allocation and dereferencing. There is a third way, however: use purl.org for shortening.

  1. Research privacy on purl.org to confirm
  2. Create a domain "sqratch"
  3. Add a checkbox "Link Shortener", with some kind of hoverstate or other documentation to explain the privacy strategy
  4. During an edit, when a URL is found and the checkbox is set, hit the API to mint a shortened slug.
lucasgonze commented 8 months ago

I can't imagine this working except if the user gets an API token of their own and saves it in some configuration screen, and that's assume purl.org has an API. This is just not the right thing to put so much effort into.