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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by touzovitch@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Hey everyone, so for the past few month I have been working on this project and I'd love to have your feedback on it.

As we all know any time we publish something public online (on Reddit, Twitter or even this forum), our posts, comments or messages are scrapped and read by thousands of bots for various legitimate or illegitimate reasons.

With the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT we know that the "understanding" of textual content at scale is more efficient than ever.

So I created Redakt, an open source zero-click decryption tool to encrypt any text you publish online to make it only understandable to other users that have the browser extension installed.

Try it! Feel free to install the extension (Chrome/Brave/Firefox ): https://redakt.org/browser/

EDIT: For example, here’s a Medium article with encrypted content: https://redakt.org/demo/

Before you ask: What if the bots adapt and also use Redakt's extension or encryption key?

Well first they don't at the moment (they're too busy gathering billions of data points "in clear"). If they do use the extension then any changes we'll add to the extension (captcha, encryption method) will force them to readapt and prevent them to scale their data collection.

Let me know what you guys think!

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[-] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not sure. Couldn't the bots just decrypt it the same way?

Ahhh, didn't read to the end. Hm. Still not convinced. I don't want captchas etc to use the internet

[-] touzovitch@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Captcha was just an example :-)

What I'm trying to say is that any small changes that we add to the extension will have very few (or none) effect on the real users, but will force the srappers to adapt. That might require important human and machine ressources to collect data at a massive scale.

EDIT: And thank you for your feedback <3

this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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