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by 01001010 3073 days ago
This is great! I have been waiting for an extension such as this which: (1) is seamless, (2) doesn't break the web, (3) doesn't require too much tweaking, and (4) is offered by a company I trust. Mainly in order to install on friends' and family's devices who aren't tech savvy – this appears to be exactly that. Thank you. Love the UX (sans below), nice touch integrating with ToS;DR.

Feedback: The "enhanced from X to Y" is not perfectly clear to me. I'm guessing you're saying "we were able to upgrade the rating to Y from X". Correct? The badge seems to be showing the upgraded rating rather than the "actual" rating – this is not what I expected. I expected to see the privacy grade of said website, not the grade received by blocking scripts and/or redirecting to https.

Question: Will the extension for Safari be available from the Safari Extensions Gallery[1]? This would be even better, avoiding (said friends and family) having to "Trust" the safariextz and get the disclaimer that it isn't from the gallery. (I currently only see your old search extension in the gallery, will they, perhaps, be merged?)

[1]: https://safari-extensions.apple.com/?q=duckduckgo

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Update: The extension is now available through the Safari Extensions Gallery[1] and has, as far as I can tell, replaced the previous search extension.

[1]: https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.duckduck...

Not only will putting it in the gallery avoid having to "trust" it but it will also allow the extension to auto-update.
Yes, we are trying to update the extensions gallery as we speak.