I actually know the folks at disconnect. I can get an official reply from them if you'd like.
-jf -- He who settles on the idea of the intelligent man as a static entity only shows himself to be a fool. Mensan / Full-Stack Technical Polymath / System Administrator 12 years over the entire web stack: Performance, Sysadmin, Ruby and Frontend On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Ciarán O'Riordan <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi, > > I found a good free addon that's not on addons.html. This addon seems to > be > a free replacement for Ghostery, so it's quite important (if it's not > SaaS). > > Name: Disconnect > > what it does: blocks third-party thingies on webpages such as trackers, > facebook buttons, traffic analysis elements, cookies from > advertisers etc. > > Addon's website: https://disconnect.me/ > > Where the addon can be downloaded: > https://addons.mozilla.org/downloads/latest/disconnect > > Licence: All the .js files have a gplv3 notice at the top, except > content/sitename.js, which is MPL-2.0. > > It is SaaS? I don't think so. I've read the code but I've never > programmed > in javascript, so I can't be sure. > > It says it blocks 2,000 trackers, so that list must be on my computer > somewhere when I'm using the addon. If it's not, then it's on a remote > server and this is SaaS. The code seems to download this JSON file once a > day: > > https://services.disconnect.me/disconnect.json > > The contents are encyrpted but the size is about right for a list of 2,000 > domains. > > The important javascript file seems to be content/services.js > > I think it's safe to add to addons.html, but I wanted to pass on the > findings of my minimal investigation in case someone thinks it needs > checking. > > -- > Ciarán O'Riordan > +32 (0) 485 118 029 > http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ > > http://EndSoftwarePatents.org/ - http://en.swpat.org/ > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >
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