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🪦(📧→🌐) Please bring this back from the 1990s: email→web gateway (slrpnk.net)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/tor@infosec.pub
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In the early web days there was a service where you email an URL to a certain email address and it responded with an email with the webpage attached.

We need that back. We need it to escape arbitrary anti-Tor anti-VPN forms of enshitification.

archive.org is very useful but we cannot rely on it.

Email has also become enshitified and it’s rightfully distrusted and even abandoned by the few true resisters who exist. So ideally it would be an onion email address that takes in the requests. Perhaps an onion activitypub UI as well.

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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

This is a similar SMS-based service - dunno if it's of interest to you since it's obviously not privacy-preserving, but I thought I'd share just in case. I tried & failed to use it once, but I admittedly didn't try very hard to figure it out.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I don’t think that solves the problem of getting a website’s context.

    But nonetheless it looks like a very useful tool for me because I sometimes get 1000+ free SMS msgs and at times have no Internet connection. I’ll have to study it more to see how SMS msgs get relayed and to where. Glad you mentioned it!

    It also inspires another idea. I will not email a Gmail or MS user because they can use my email to reply and include info I would not want Google or MS to have. But if I could somehow use SMS to reach a gmail recipient in a way that they cannot reply via gmail, it would be interesting because I could then control what Google/MS are allowed to see.

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