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idcac-3.4.2
The source code for the popular Chrome extension 'I don't care about cookies' version 3.4.2, the version before it was acquired by Avast
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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user.js
Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening
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SaaSHub
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I have recovered and am hosting the source code for version 3.4.2, the version prior to the Avast acquisition, on GitHub at the following
https://github.com/elgrove/idcac-3.4.2
I am not well versed in open source licensing but I believe the GPL3 gives me permission to do this. Please could someone more knowledgeable help me with this.
It’s too early to make any definitive judgements on the future of this extension. There are many obvious ways that this acquisition could—and let’s be honest, probably will—go badly for the end user. I was hoping that someone could come up with a plausible optimistic outcome.
We will know definitively when the next updates to the extension comes out. Until then we are all just speculating.
That being said, the security consciousness user should probably switch to a pre-acquisition fork such as https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
Write more filters for uBlock Origin and unbreak the web?
e.g. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...
THIS. Which is why we don't recommend extensions on privacyguides.org besides uBO (uBlock Origin). If that ever gets bought, you'll hear about it everywhere and there will most likely be a fork.
These days for privacy with Firefox you really don't need anything else. There are a few others that may have something to offer https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions for specific purposes.
Bookmarklets are an under appreciated part of web browsing. Here's one to tell you if the current article you are reading is posted on HN so you can read the comments:
javascript:(function(){window.location.href = "https://hn.algolia.com/?q=" + window.location.href;})();