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Privacy-Kit is Privacy Portal's latest FOSS tool aiming to bring privacy to the masses.

๐Ÿšจ Add a Hide-My-Email feature to your site with one line of code.

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๐Ÿšจ Include Subscribe-Anonymously for your newsletter in the same way.

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  • When a user requests to generate an email alias, a popup would appear (similar to "Sign In With Apple") prompting the user to sign in with Privacy Portal in order to authorize generating and filling the email alias.
  • As mentioned in the library's Github page, an account is required in order for Privacy Portal to be able to forward emails to your personal email address.
  • Privacy Portal has a transparent and fair business model that allows small creators and businesses to use our services free of charge under a certain usage threshold.
  • Privacy Portal is built for privacy and processes all emails in memory without writing them to disk. It does not store, collect, share, nor sell any user data. Privacy Policy
  • Users can sign up on Privacy Portal with an anonymous email address for even more privacy.
  • Email Aliases generated for a particular website can only relay emails authorized by said website and are unusable by other third parties making it a perfect solution for eliminating spam, and email sharing accross websites.
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[โ€“] theRealDonaldDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

We like the skepticism. ๐Ÿ˜€ Hope the following clarifies things a bit:

  1. The repo contains the privacy-kit library code under the /src directory.
  2. The website files in the repo are test files used by contributors to test the library.
  3. The code from the repo is packaged into an npm library as mention in the README.md.
  4. The privacy-kit-*.js are the built library assets that you can build by running npm run build.

Feel free to ask any questions for more clarification. Also the library is tiny it's designed to have zero dependencies and no impact on website performance.