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Typed.pw: anonymous online content

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Warning to anyone following links to articles written, there is no sanitation of any of the content so javascript is freely executed. Warning against going to any of the articles created.

also no SSL certificate

Right, so intermediaries can see all content. And knowing your IP address, nothing is anonymous.

By anonymous I mostly mean that I don't require your name or email, there are no ads and I don't keep logs.

I will add a let's encrypt SSL cert though for more anonymity.

Cool. It'd also be good to clarify what you mean by "anonymous". Even Tor doesn't claim to be anonymous.

What I mean with "anonymous" is on the homepage. From typed.pw

> Write anonymously. No logs. No tracking. No name. No email.

Isn't clear enough? Should I add more details?

What do you think would be a better word instead of "anonymous"?

It's just that "anonymous" is such a loaded word. And many users still have magical faith in Internet anonymity.

I would warn people about the need to obfuscate IP address. Maybe point them to https://www.privacytools.io/.

Nice site. The only problem is that it never mentions free software or GNU/Linux. "Open source" has never been about the user. https://prism-break.org may be better.

That's a good site too.

Will a let's encrypt SSL certificate be ok? Previously I didn't have the money but now that it's gratis I have no excuses.

Like this hack: http://typed.pw/a/652

I had an old version of pandoc which didn't support pandoc -f markdown-raw_html now I updated it manually.

Take a look at http://typed.pw/a/652 and you'll see that it doesn't work anymore.

Layout seems like it needs a lot of work. Comes across as very... well, 1990s if you ask me. I mean, I don't expect something as pleasant to look at as say, Medium, but a site with at least a better colour scheme would work wonders here.

And the security stuff... yeah, that needs fixed too. Kind of surprised this wasn't thought about.

Any help with the layout/color scheme is much appreciated. Right now I love the way it looks. YMMV.

And I fixed the security hole.

I updated the styling. Should be better :).

Aaron Swartz's jottit.com is very similar to this.

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