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GeezerVison is showing github.com — CDN problem and possible Firefox port? · Issue #420 · gorhill/httpswitchboard

This repository was archived by the owner on Nov 15, 2017. It is now read-only.
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CDN problem and possible Firefox port? #420

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@lawrencehartkog
lawrencehartkog
opened on Oct 14, 2014
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A visit to the shopping sites (where the action is, according to the analytics sickos)
nowadays demonstrates that almost no product of any kind can be searched for or
compared without invoking CDN scripts. The CDN market has several big syndicates -
let's take Amazon and its CDN subsidiary Cloudfront as an example, which appear
on many commercial sites nowadays:
Privacy for Cloudfront is regulated by Amazon's privacy policy, which in turn happily
admits that they do fingerprinting.

Alternatives in this situation:

  • don't search for products online
  • get fingerprinted, let insurances and HR providers know what you are doing online
  • use Tor browser bundle with NoScript, which is already impressively hardened against fingerprinting

Since NoScript is not a very convincing concept (first allow scripts, then forbid one by one, etc.),
and making Chromium as fingerprint-resisting as the Tor-Firefox fork is really a lot of work,
I'd kindly ask:

How much work would it be to port httpswitchboard to Firefox? Could it be done with a
reasonable community effort?

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  1. gorhill commented on Oct 14, 2014

    @gorhill
    gorhill
    on Oct 14, 2014
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    How much work would it be to port httpswitchboard to Firefox?

    I am in the midst of refactoring HTTPSB into uMatrix. I have come to see HTTPSB as a nice but quite sub-optimal prototype with many issues arising from this, and I want to bring the code to a better state than what it has grown into. That said, I will keep the porting issue as a top issue as I refactor. Then once done, I will be able to have a better view on the issue.

  2. lawrencehartkog commented on Oct 14, 2014

    @lawrencehartkog
    lawrencehartkog
    on Oct 14, 2014
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    That is nice to hear.

  3. wisiwig commented on Oct 28, 2014

    @wisiwig
    wisiwig
    on Oct 28, 2014
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    I am very grateful to you for the development of this addon. And I am especially grateful for the work on porting it to the Firefox. Thank you!

  4. xdmx commented on Nov 16, 2014

    @xdmx
    xdmx
    on Nov 16, 2014
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    @gorhill, have you tried to talk to @futpib? He's working on Policeman, which is very similar to httpswitchboard, but for firefox. Maybe you could join the forces

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