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smmr-software / privacy-redirect-safari

A Safari extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and more to privacy friendly alternatives.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Privacy implications of “Enable on all websites”? #25

Closed ghost closed 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

iOS is asking me if I want to enable this extension on all websites, and says the app developer can see what sites I’m visiting. Is this true?

FIGBERT commented 2 years ago

We do not access all websites, but instead request only those that we need (an unfortunately very long list due to Google's bajillion TLDs). You can see a list of all sites we request access to in our manifest.json.

The extension can indeed access these sites when you visit them – that's how we redirect them – but the app never establishes a network connection and all processing is done locally. In fact, we don't even have any servers we could send your data to!