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JDStraughan / nonews

No News (is Good News!) browser extension for Google Chrome.
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Blocked news privacy issue #3

Closed robinj closed 6 years ago

robinj commented 7 years ago

Not sure if this extension is still being maintained, but I think there is a privacy/security issue associated with visiting a blocked site.

When you visit, for instance bbc.co.uk, you are redirected to the following page:

http://www.nonews.info/blocked-site.html?site=http://bbc.co.uk/

The page is served insecurely over http and results in possible tracking by that site (although I am sure you aren't really interested in seeing what articles we visit ;) and/or anyone who is MITM your connection, for example if you are using public WiFi).

My suggestion, for anyone who feels like putting in a PR, is to have the "Site Blocked - Access Denied" served directly from the extension. What do you think @JDStraughan ?

robinj commented 6 years ago

Closing this due to seemingly abandoned project