disconnectme / disconnect

Disconnect is a browser extension that makes the web faster, more private, and more secure.
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Conflict with ZIP Extractor app #280

Open jessicabrodsky opened 10 years ago

jessicabrodsky commented 10 years ago

Reported by extension developer:

"Hi team,

I'm the developer of (free, open source) ZIP Extractor, a sample app for the Google Drive API.

I had a user report that ZIP Extractor (via https://zip-extractor.appspot.com) fails to load when Disconnect is enabled AND either Gmail or G+ tabs are open. The user was able to get ZIP Extractor to work in incognito mode, and also got it to work if the Disconnect extension was disabled.

Are these sorts of interactions expected?

A few thoughts: ZIP Extractor uses Google Analytics for page and visitor counts but doesn't otherwise 'track'; perhaps Google Analytics is one of Disconnects targets;

Possible fixes include:

  1. Whitelisting ZIP Extractor for Disconnect
  2. Detecting if Disconnect is installed (in ZIP Extractor code), and if so, displaying a notice
  3. Fixing some coding issue on either of our ends
  4. Removing Google Analytics for Disconnect users
  5. Removing Google Analytics for all users

Would be grateful for your guidance."