![]() ![]() Of course some effort should be made to accomodate reasonable small changes to browsers and extension formats (And he has done that already- UBO for Chrome does not have all the features it does in Firefox), but when something threatens to gut an extension, not going along with it can be a good thing. ![]() That Gorhill has in the past mentioned that he won’t make major changes to neuter his extension in response to changes like Manifest v3 is a sign of character, but not in the way that you imply. At no point did a real human write him an email, or respond to his email, with an actual discussion of what their problem with his extension update is. Gorhill has also made his correspodence with Google on this issue public, and he is basically getting form letters from a computer algorthym. There is no evidence that Gorhill did anything in particular to trigger this and there certainly is evidence that there was nothing malcious in the update- its open-source software and all edits have been published! Github lists the actual code that was changed between the previous developer version and the rejected developer version. Hill comes across as disingenious and, in any event, makes reference in some places to facts not in evidence, and in other places is simply factually inaccurate based on publicly available documents. he wants to evolve?Īnyway, now that I know more about Hill, I may stop using the extension altogether or until Google gives him permission to list the extension with the changes in the Google extensions listing. Question never asked or answered: “Why is Hill changing the extension in the first place?” Because. The following is a perfect example of propaganda on Hill’s part, a technique used to gain user support that will attempt to annihilate Google for such a REJECTION 3) Hill’s reluctance or inability to change the extension’s code to something that isn’t prohibited let’s users know important information about his character and his ethical code. ![]() Google makes the above statement, and Raymond Hill would know EXACTLY what he changed in coding that is considered “prohibited bundling.” Honestly, Google only reveals to all users that the Development version contained code that is considered, perhaps, a way to collect user data or some such privacy violation. “Google stated that the extension violated one of the Chrome Store’s policies that prohibits the bundling of unrelated functionality in extensions.” Since we haven’t read the email from Google to the developer or his reply or any further correspondence in either direction, we really can’t make any sort of assessment or prediction because each side has a “perception” of the situation that only favors one side. For example, does the hosts file interact differently with Firefox on the three platforms it runs on? (Linux, Mac, Windows.) But just repeating what other people have said, without actually experimenting with it, is not helpful. So on my Mac, at least… Firefox’s DoH clearly does _not_ disable my hosts file.Īny further insight into this would be welcome. My setup requires custom “virtual server” entries in Apache’s main configuration file (nf) as well as a bunch of custom entries in my hosts file.Īnd the local Apache server _does_ work I use it every day. (Not the Apache included with the Mac I installed another one separately.) It took me quite a lot of time to figure out, but I learned a lot of interesting things in the process. ![]() How I know this isn’t even related to blocking anything: when I set up my local web-development server (Apache), for multiple websites that I work on, I used a somewhat unusual manual technique. (That’s in addition to having 1.1.1.1 as my preferred DNS provider at the MacOS system level.)īut I also have a custom hosts file, and I know for a fact it IS working. In Firefox Preferences, under Network Settings, I have “Enable DNS over HTTPS” checked, along with the default in the popup menu, “Use Provider / Cloudflare (Default)”. People have said this here before, but is it really true? Maybe on Windows… even there can somebody confirm this? Because on my Mac it’s _not_ true. “Hosts, yes….but not if you switch to DoH. ![]()
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