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I’ve been enjoying https://whentaken.com/game which is in a similar vein.
Nobody mentions Need For Speed Underground: 2?
It had an iconic soundtrack.


It’s a license to play the game, so when you pirate it is like sneaking into the movie theater. There’s no additional cost to the producer, but theoretically a loss of revenue from the license (movie ticket) you didn’t buy.
All that ignores the fact that they sure do pretend they are SELLING the game when it’s convenient.

Oh, I see what you mean.
https://triangularapps.blogspot.com/search/label/UrlChecker?m=1
You can set this as your default application whenever you click a link, and it’ll let you strip off the tracking bits and stuff before you go to your browser or whatever.
It does look nice! Are you familiar with the languages and frameworks it used, so that you could potentially clean it up under the hood?
Out of curiosity, why did you ask for a self hosted version instead of making a little web app and sharing it? I wouldn’t think you’d have any data in there worth protecting.