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by throwaway2016a
3262 days ago
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Related story... I once worked on a price comparison plugin and Firefox is very strict about what your plugins are allowed to do. They review each one and have some strict rules: like you can't load and execute Javascript from the web. Most of our competitors just sent every URL you visited to their server. We wanted to be better than that since that is an obvious privacy issue. So we made all our plugins (IE, FF, Chrome) download a whitelist (regex array) of shopping domains our search engine supported and it would only make API calls to our server if it matched that list AND you were on a product page. Had the added benefit of reducing our server load too. The server still gets a list of every page you visit on eCommerce sites but better than on all sites. |
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