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Synzvato / decentraleyes

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The explanation of the approach is incorrect #249

Closed rob-stewart closed 6 years ago

rob-stewart commented 6 years ago

The description never actually says that Decentraleyes retrieves content from CDNs or that it uses scrubbed headers to make its requests safer. As described, I thought Decentraleyes had its own, local collection of content that it served. Thus, I suggest changing, "The aim of this add-on is to cut-out the middleman by providing lightning speed delivery of local (bundled) files to improve online privacy," to something more like the following:

This add-on smartly caches content from those third parties without information that identifies you. That reduces your data usage and virtually eliminates their ability to track you.

TriMoon commented 6 years ago

@rob-stewart This extension actually does serve it's own local content versions, it does not download and cache "yet"... see #131

Synzvato commented 6 years ago

Hi @rob-stewart, and thank you for sharing your concerns. As correctly stated by @TriMoon, it does in fact come with locally injectable content. It's also worth noting that request sanitation only comes into play when a requested resource is not locally available. It's optional, and does not increment the counter.