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🆕 Software Suggestion | Redact

Open johnpyp opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Basic Information

Name: Redact Category: Software URL: redact.dev

Description

Redact allows you to mass delete content (posts, likes, messages, comments, etc.) from tons of services, like discord, reddit, twitter, facebook, and others.

Why I am making the suggestion

The service helps to completely wipe a large digital footprint from many companies that are notoriously data hungry, especially when they make it particularly difficult to manage your own content en masse. I think this falls right in line with the goal of privacytools.

My connection with the software

I'm one of the team members writing the software.

  • [X] I will keep the issue up-to-date if something I have said changes or I remember a connection with the software.

johnpyp avatar May 25 '21 19:05 johnpyp

Is this program Free Software?

Dyrimon avatar May 27 '21 06:05 Dyrimon

Is this program Free Software?

Doesn't seem so unfortunately.

lrq3000 avatar May 29 '21 22:05 lrq3000

@privacytools/editorial I don't think we need to add this if it is not open source...

freddy-m avatar Jun 21 '21 13:06 freddy-m

To clarify- The software is Free as in beer, but it is not open source.

However, it is the only option available for many of the services we support to delete your message history. For instance, this is the only way, open source or not, to mass delete your skype messages. There is no other option. And thats the case for many of the services we have added support for. The intention in the future is to create future privacy-related add ons we might charge for, but this entire line is completely free and without limitation.

I understand the resistance to anything not open-source, but I do believe our product is in the spirit of privacy and helping users. In addition, the guidelines for submission here did say that open source software was preferred, but not required.

harknesslabs avatar Jul 13 '21 16:07 harknesslabs