Ported from Discord Server, Redact User:
Feedback Right now, Redact.dev is powerful for large platforms, but users targeted by country-specific, obscure forums don’t have meaningful tools to protect themselves. These sites often host reposted or obfuscated content from mainstream platforms, which Redact currently can’t reach. The lack of tools for these high-impact, low-visibility sites makes the product feel incomplete for certain use cases.
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: Use Case Story A growing number of toxic online communities are dedicated to doxxing or publicly shaming individuals. These forums scrape or repost content from social media platforms, group it under someone’s name, and use it to attack or harass them. While small, these sites have high engagement and cause serious real-world harm.
For example, a user might find dozens of threads across a local-language forum targeting them by name, with their photos, social media screenshots, and defamatory narratives. These posts aren’t discoverable via Redact’s current toolset and must be reported manually—often one by one—through difficult-to-navigate site tools hidden behind login walls.
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: The Feature Idea Enable users to upload:
- A homepage URL
- A login URL
- In app launch of login page to insert credentials
- Advanced search url
Redact could then:
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Crawl the site’s search form using available patterns and recognized field types.
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Map inputs to Redact’s internal selectors (where applicable).,
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Generate a semi-automated module for that site, giving users access to search + takedown/report tools within that domain.
The goal isn’t to break privacy barriers, but to automate and streamline self-defense on hostile platforms—where damaging content is often hidden from view, but publicly accessible to others.
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: Technical Notes (Future Scope)
- This would require Redact to interpret search form structures and detect field names/IDs.
- Takedown/report functions may vary and would need manual mapping or user input to define.
- Scheduled scans + keyword matching on these custom modules would make a huge difference long-term.
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: Final Note
This is admittedly ambitious, but even partial support for custom site modules would be a game-changer for people dealing with targeted harassment on obscure but impactful forums.