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Trackers that are moved to red, reset to green when page reloads #240

Closed sathood closed 9 years ago

sathood commented 9 years ago

There are certain trackers when I slide the bar from green to red, when the page reloads, returns to green. www.facebook.com on yahoo w/sites, twitter.com on various w/sites, secure2.homedepot.com on hotmail and socialprofiles.zenfs.com on yahoo finance are some examples. I use latest firefox version on a windows 7 professional operating system with Symantec and Ghostery also running. Have seen twitter.com on red on some sites even though it is green on others.

Thanx for your good efforts!

cooperq commented 9 years ago

Interesting, I wonder if this is due to a conflict between privacy badger and one of the other plugins. I will have to investigate this further. It certainly doesn't happen without those other plugins, at least not in my testing so far.

sathood commented 9 years ago

One of the things I've noticed is the change to 'red' eventually takes place. When I first downloaded/used privacy badger this didn't happen, it happens now. A new tracking app blu168.afx.ms is doing the same thing at Hotmail and 33.media.tumblr.com on BBC Sports and yahoo. Most obvious possibility to me is the new version of Firefox.

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:50:57 -0700 From: notifications@github.com To: privacybadgerfirefox@noreply.github.com CC: sathood@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [privacybadgerfirefox] Trackers that are moved to red, reset to green when page reloads (#240)

Interesting, I wonder if this is due to a conflict between privacy badger and one of the other plugins. I will have to investigate this further. It certainly doesn't happen without those other plugins, at least not in my testing so far.

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cooperq commented 9 years ago

So far I have been unable to reproduce this. Does the problem still happen even if you disable ghostery and the symantec toolbar?

sathood commented 9 years ago

Attn: Cooper Quintin

Did you get my previous response? When I closed the window, after changing the setting(s), and then reopen the changes take place. It is possible the issue was using a old version of firefox. Finally yesterday I was prompted to update Firefox twice.

The laptop I'm using is a one at a 2d home that during the summer is turned off.

I just found a window w/ a new tracking app and when I turned it off it worked. Looks like it was the combo of ghostery/badger/firefox (old version.

Thanx for looking into this.

Paul

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:59:11 -0800 From: notifications@github.com To: privacybadgerfirefox@noreply.github.com CC: sathood@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [privacybadgerfirefox] Trackers that are moved to red, reset to green when page reloads (#240)

So far I have been unable to reproduce this. Does the problem still happen even if you disable ghostery and the symantec toolbar?

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cooperq commented 9 years ago

Glad it is fixed for you now, thanks!