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Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by BuckRogers »

BuckRogers wrote: post #307
dessant wrote: post #37

I'd love to use ClearURLs, though last I checked it had a major flaw: it allows arbitrary code execution by the provider of the filter list. Among other things, it can redirect script URLs to arbitrary sources, and the filter list is periodically updated from a GitLab page, which enables the filter list provider to perform a targeted attack by serving a malicious filter list to a specific device. The only filter list…

Thanks for mentioning this. While I did install it upon seeing the news on removal, I'll go without it for now and hope for a similar project from the EFF.

I'm seeing downvotes for this and I am here to learn- where am I misguided? Is there a convincing argument to install this program? Let me know, I just want to understand what I may be unaware of, to receive the new information, and then if it makes sense I will correct my decision.

Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

andrewinardeer wrote: post #187
varispeed wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need a regulation that will automatically deal with such monopolies by ordering companies to split after reaching certain thresholds. This way we would never get companies too big to fail.

Then what is the incentive to start a company, grow it within the legal and regulatory framework and when it gets to an arbitrary, non-defined size have the legal and regulatory bodies systematically dismantle it by forcing you to sell it off?

Supose we take this icorrect argument - you starg a company but at arbitrary size you have to sell off chunks. Okay, you made a profit, thats the point of capitalism.

Are you suggest we should instead cater to megalomaniacs that wish to run maximally large companies and rule industries?

Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by scolby33 »

dessant wrote: post #37

I'd love to use ClearURLs, though last I checked it had a major flaw: it allows arbitrary code execution by the provider of the filter list. Among other things, it can redirect script URLs to arbitrary sources, and the filter list is periodically updated from a GitLab page, which enables the filter list provider to perform a targeted attack by serving a malicious filter list to a specific device. The only filter list…

The developer addressed this comment here https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/issues/102#issuecomment-8...

Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by kiwidrew »

ricardo81 wrote: post #324
buzer wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried some development-related queries that I have recently done in Google. Queries related to Go seem to mainly work only if using Go and not if using Golang (unless "go" + term is popular outside of Go as well). Usually people use Golang in search (to avoid confusion with the verb & game), but pages generally refer to Go. "go package XXXX" seems to work better in many cases. With a bit of lesser known technologie…

Hello, mojeek dev here, thanks for the feedback it is always appreciated. I think there's two ideas that come up from your feedback, one is index size. Our index is small but growing. A larger index increases the chance of having pages that satisfy your query. The other aspect is boolean search versus something more akin to the vector space model. We've found a lot of people that are dissatisfied with Bing/Google sea…

If you do this, it'd be great to have a way to select the 'mode' of search (exact query vs 'smart' terms). I'm not sure what the user interface ought to be, but "literally" "anything" "would" "be" "better" than the contortions you have to go through to force search engines to search for the terms you've actually provided.

Great job so far, by the way, keep up the good work!

Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by jrochkind1 »

ricardo81 wrote: post #284
jrochkind1 wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the first test search I did. "github ruby hanami" looking for the hanami github repo. Seems like a relatively simple query. On Google, it's the first result. https://www.google.com/search?q=github+ruby+hanami On mojeek, it's not even on the first page. https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=github+ruby+hanami It's possible that at this point I (and others) have trained ourselves to know/do the kind of queries that wo…

Hello, mojeek dev here. Cheers for the feedback, appreciated. In this case we simply don't have the page in our index, though we do have others mentioning hanami. Our bot is permitted to crawl github.com and has a good number of pages in from that host, we'll evaluate whether we can increase crawling for github and similar large sites and hopefully before long that page will enter the index.

Ah, good to know.

As a developer one of the main things I'm searching for is code.

Unfortunately (for competitors) I can pretty much count on Google having everything I ever want in the index.

Not having the thing I'm looking for in the index is another wrinkle on top of relevancy.

Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by WesolyKubeczek »

int_19h wrote: post #253
cookiecaper wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The layoffs last summer tell us all we need to know about the direction Mozilla's headed. I think they're toast. Brave and -- dare I say it? -- even Edge have brighter prospects.

Check out Vivaldi while you're at it.

A Chromium fork too. Meh.

Albeit a neat skin they put on it, I'll admit.

Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by neop1x »

dessant wrote: post #37

I'd love to use ClearURLs, though last I checked it had a major flaw: it allows arbitrary code execution by the provider of the filter list. Among other things, it can redirect script URLs to arbitrary sources, and the filter list is periodically updated from a GitLab page, which enables the filter list provider to perform a targeted attack by serving a malicious filter list to a specific device. The only filter list…

The last time I used it, it also disabled ETags by default. I lost many hours trying to figure out why those 10MB Kibana JS bundles are re-downloaded on every page load and only in my Firefox, checking about:config, etc... I know etags can be used for tracking and that Expires should be used instead but i did not expect CleanURLs to do anything more than just cleaning URLs...

Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by ppf »

godshatter wrote: post #342
ppf wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't popular on here last time I said it, but Google has won the web. Time to move on. Also - Google is the natural result of the Silicon Valley business model. You got what you wanted!

I have moved on. To duckduckgo, firefox, fastmail...

Except that everyone is running to keep up with all the new web standards introduced by Google. I assume you also don't use Android.

Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by etherealG »

random5634 wrote: post #296
g_p wrote: post #17

It looks like the developer may be in the EU. If they offer the add-on as a business, it may be worth looking at if any of the internet rights legal groups will help take the case up under the 2019 EU platform rules. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32... These make various requirements around how Google act, and include requirements around removing products from platforms. As an aside, it se…

God - if remote code execution exploits are an EU right we are screwed!

Except remote code execution wasn’t the reason google claims to take the add on down... come on, it’s a clear conflict of interest, and they could have easily asked to remove remote code execution possibility instead.

Re: Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

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Post by JamesAdir »

nottorp wrote: post #196
JamesAdir wrote: post #129

I'm very worried that this extension can limit the ability of small site owners to earn money from affiliate marketing. Many of this sites rely on links to Amazon and other big stores. They are losing on ads with the ad filters, and now this? How can they be compensated for their work? I'm all in for privacy, but shouldn't there be a more balanced way?

That train has unfortunately left the station long ago. I'd like to see more small sites have a donation (not subscription, unless a decent micropayment solution shows up and they give up on the "it's just the price of a Starbucks coffee" crap) instead.

I'm don't have the number but unless there is a specific cause I think that content sites are not seeing donations as a good revenue stream. Maybe Substack and such tools will be able to be a more sustainable solution.
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