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Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
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Dropbox content for websites #311

Closed JCH2 closed 9 years ago

JCH2 commented 9 years ago

I have been recommending PB to everyone wherever possible. But I noticed something deeply disturbing the other day. At first I thought all three of my sites hosted on Blogger had suddenly crashed or lost all dynamic function and embedded media and styling. That should have been a clue, but I missed it.

DropBox is one of the last cloud services that allows direct media linking in a website for such as images and style sheets. Anyone using a free hosting system with minimal to no storage will need to use it.

My visitors to my own sites (three) were the ones to report that my sites were all a mess. So obviously users are not paying attention to PB settings. At the same time, I recommend that DropBox be graded as "yellow" by default rather than "red." The default privacy setting for DropBox content was the problem.

Honestly, I understand the need for privacy defense, and I also know that tracker and privacy invasion has become and epidemic. At the same time, many users will use PB in a set-and-forget mindset. The current setting for DropBox produces collateral third party losses for sites like mine.

J.C. Hendee, Author NobleDead.org NDAuthorServices.com

cooperq commented 9 years ago

Hi JC, Sorry about the problems that you had! Indeed not adding dropbox to the greylist of sites to cookieblock was certainly an unfortunate oversight on our part. I have created a patch to add it in #312 and it should be up in the next few hours. I'm glad that you are enjoying privacy badger and recommending it to others. I hope that you have no more problems once dropbox becomes unblocked. Cheers!