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!

    • @hakunawazo
      12•1 year ago

      That explains so many subs/comments. But maybe I’m out of touch like Skinner.

      But on topic: I see the same problem as with link shorteners. One single service or extension disappears and all good content or links are gone.

      • TipponEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        That’s the biggest problem. I used to use a suspension service for Chrome that would change your open links to its own format when a tab was suspended. I bookmarked hundreds of links in their format over the years.

        The service was bought out by a third party, then sold to a scammer, leading to it getting banned by Google.

        I’ve now got hundreds of links that are obfuscated, and the only way to get them back is to manually edit them and see which ones are important.

      • @[email protected]OP
        1•1 year ago

        But on topic: I see the same problem as with link shorteners. One single service or extension disappears and all good content or links are gone.

        Not exactly. The extension is open source so even if the official extension is gone, you would still be able to decrypt previously “redakted” content.

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

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        Wow, I couldn’t read a thing without the extension! Works perfectly!

        Haha