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Comment by swinglock | Hacker News Reader

What about privacy? Will this extension send a query to a server, identifying each video opened on YouTube?

I really hate this kind of nit-picking. You're afraid to give this information to student who said it's not stored, and yet you don't mind to give the same information to the biggest marketing machine who not only uses it, but also sells it.

It's naive to assume only the current author has or will have exclusive access to your data.

Yes, that's why I don't store data I don't need.

But of course, I agree with you. Don't trust anyone.

Don't agree with him. It's your project and your time. If you trust yourself and know you don't log, then why make an effort to appease paranoid users who never checked source code of your extension? k-anonymity will increase load of your server and your cost while you know it's pointless.

On the other hand, user can use VPN, Tor, browser containers to achieve the same. If they really are as paranoid as they say - they already do.

Yes, but in general I do agree it is important to be weary of services. Not specifically mine.

Currently yes, though there's discussion of adding k-anonymity: hashing the video id and querying by a prefix of the hash short enough so each request will return on average data for maybe ~16 videos

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer/issues/25

I thinks so but the database is downloadable so you could always send in a patch.

Yea, you could self host the server.

But I want to work on easier ways soon.

- SponsorBlock Developer

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