[GH-ISSUE #1682] [complementary userscript] automatically encrypt (sent) and decrypt (received) messages with a shared secret #1171

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opened 2026-05-07 00:30:49 +02:00 by BreizhHardware · 0 comments

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2026-05-07 00:30:49 +02:00

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Originally created by @warren-bank on GitHub (Mar 30, 2026).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/1682

Hi. I only just learned about ntfy yesterday.

The following list summarizes my initial thoughts while playing around with the server (both your hosted service, as well as a self-hosted instance with minimal configuration):

it's great that messages can be posted anonymously
- with simple HTTP requests
it's great that topics can be created on-the-fly
- with values that are complex enough to serve as impromptu passwords
it would be nice if messages could be end-to-end encrypted
- complex topic values discourage looky-loos,
  but don't completely prevent web scraping
- to accomplish this task, I wrote a little userscript
  - it's not very complicated, and was coded in an evening
  - seems to work quite well...
    the big downside is that it only works in the web app, and not the mobile app clients
  - figured I'd post a link here.. in case anyone else might find it useful
  - enjoy 😃

Originally created by @warren-bank on GitHub (Mar 30, 2026). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/1682 Hi. I only just learned about `ntfy` yesterday. The following list summarizes my initial thoughts while playing around with the server (both your [hosted service](https://ntfy.sh/app), as well as a [self-hosted instance](https://warren-bank-ntfy.onrender.com/) with [minimal configuration](https://github.com/warren-bank/render-web-services/tree/ntfy)): * it's great that messages can be posted anonymously - with simple HTTP requests * it's great that topics can be created on-the-fly - with values that are complex enough to serve as impromptu passwords * it would be nice if messages could be end-to-end encrypted - complex topic values discourage looky-loos,<br>but don't completely prevent web scraping - to accomplish this task, I wrote a little [userscript](https://github.com/warren-bank/crx-ntfy) * it's not very complicated, and was coded in an evening * seems to work quite well...<br>the big downside is that it only works in the web app, and __not__ the [mobile app](https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android) clients * figured I'd post a link here.. in case anyone else might find it useful * enjoy :smiley: