Closed atomGit closed 6 years ago
never mind - i believe i found the answer to my question in the Search Engines Helper GitHub page
I think I made it pretty clear that this uses file.io, for technical reasons. Is it not obvious enough?
from the privacy policy on AMO...
Due to a technical limitation in Firefox your search engine description is temporarily uploaded to file.io.
this leads one to believe that a connection to file.io is not made unless one provides a description
Oh, I see. This comes from "OpenSearch description formation". I might think of some better term.
i might suggest simply changing it to...
Due to a technical limitation with Firefox WebExtensions, this add-on uses a 3rd party service provided by file.io to configure your custom search engine plugins. file.io stores this data temporarily. You can read their privacy policy and terms of service here: https://www.file.io/
oh, also wanted to ask why the connection to file.io is not in the add-on permissions? i'm just curious and this question is not really specific to your extension - i'm just wondering if you might know why this may be
even when i use the Project Insight extension, it doesn't list the file.io URL
apparently this add-on uses file.io to create the plugin even when a description is not added, though this is not stated in the AMO description
just curious why it needs to use an external resource at all
thanks