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0 pointsNextgrid4y ago0 comments

> it adds a trusted root cert during the install process

That's a non-starter for me. I do not want an application to be able to MITM all traffic.

Surely you just need to be able to MITM certain domains (the ones of the paywalled websites you unblock), can't you just create individual self-signed certificates for those and trust them one by one?

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ian-bateman4y ago

That's understandable - if you'd like a work around for now, the app has a 'pause' feature (which, if active, will cease to proxy traffic completely - you can just turn it on briefly as needed, then 'pause' it after loading the article).

The reason for the root cert is that in short order (after cleaning up our infra, etc.) we're actually planning to expand to a full-spectrum adblocker.

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