Re: State of the Project

[Richard Stallman]

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  > * Would all of these sites best be handled by extensions, or might some 
  > be better addressed with proxies (like Indivious and Nitter) or 
  > stand-alone clients? At least one stand-alone client will necessarily be 
  > a part of the project, as Mozilla's own developer hub can't be fixed 
  > with WebExtensions.

In many cases, either one would be ok.  But the proxy server approach
has several drawbacs.

It requires running a server, or perhaps several servers in parallel.
If lots of people use the site, that could require a lot of computing
power.  That could cost money.

For non-anonymous usage, it may be difficult to maintain privacy of
communication between the user and the site across the proxy server
without allowing the proxy server operator, and its hosting provider,
to know something about the communication.

Another minor drawback is that communicating through the proxy server
would slow the communication down a little.


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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