🆕 Software Suggestion | Consider replacing DecentralEyes with LocalCDN? #1779
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Name: LocalCDN
Category: Browser extensions
URL: https://gitlab.com/nobody42/localcdn
Description
Fork of Decentraleyes with more maintenance.
Why I am making the suggestion
#1328, Decentraleyes appears unmaintained while LocalCDN is and to quote @nitrohorse from Reddit:
My connection with the software
I am trying it out of curiosity since today learning it has µMatrix ruleset generator.
This has been on my eye for a while as well, but decentraleyes is a well known and respected project, so directly replacing it seems a bit to quick imo.
I'd suggest starting out as a "worth mention" and visit this in a few weeks/months, see if Decentraleyes goes back to normal development. Should that not happen, we'd probably go ahead and either switch their places or remove Decentraleyes completly.
That got me thinking, should we have some page where these listings/de-listings are accounted for? Something along the lines of a mailing list, RSS-able, where we'd get either a week/month-ly digest or a direct warning as soon as something was changed. I could certainly see the use case for sending out a warning in a case like startpage's acquisition by Privacy One Group.
we have had the idea of a newsletter come up before, but so far, we didn't have someone with the time on there hands to maintain such a thing. we would still like to do a "this week in privacytools" in the future though.
in anyway, a worth mentioning might be a good solution for now, but i would have to look into the application myself first.
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Self-marking as offtopic.
I agree with a Worth Mentioning until the project gets more recognition.
hey @lrq3000 would you be willing to shoot a PR for this?
Yes @blacklight447-ptio , sorry for the delay, the PR is realy :-)
btw: seems like the decentraleyes got an update on 30 april
It's also worth noting that LocalCDN does not work on Android (Fenix builds) while Decentraleyes does presently.
This is probably dependent on Mozilla, see here: https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN/wiki#user-content-13-can-i-use-localcdn-in-firefox-for-android-fenix
I think both addons can be recommended. DecentralEyes for beginners and LocalCDN for advanced users. Similar to uBlock easy and medium/hard mode.
This certainly won't be happening. Decentraleyes does not actually work meaningfully therefore it won't be recommended: https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/pull/2081#issuecomment-705996933