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by JonoXia 5223 days ago
Hello! Collusion main developer here. I am excited to be going live with this project and thrilled to see it being discussed on Hacker News (where I am a long time lurker, first time poster). I value the input from the community here.

To answer an issue which Nostromo and others have brought up, I am well aware that the addon is incomplete until it also includes data on Flash cookies, tracking pixels, localstorage, iframes, useragent fingerprinting, etc. I plan to add all of these things; the bug for adding Flash cookies is at https://github.com/toolness/collusion/issues/22 and I would greatly appreciate help with implementation from anyone who's interested (hint, hint!)

I'm also working on making the graph actionable, i.e. you should be able to click any node and say "Block" (or "whitelist" for sites you are OK with). Firefox already has the ability to set site-specific 3rd party cookie policies, but the interface to it can charitably be described as "for experts only". Collusion could provide a much more usable way to control your browser's policies.

The graph, for those who asked, is drawn using d3.js and SVG.

The demo does not require flash; it uses SVG. You just have to click "click here".
1 comments
gghh 5223 days ago
Hi JonoXia. I was already using collusion since quite a while, I guess I got the pointer here at HN some time ago: http://collusion.toolness.org/ So what is happening? is the "new" collusion somehow more "official", i.e. released by Mozilla?

EDIT: found the old HN post, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2741249

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JonoXia 5223 days ago
Hi gghh, Collusion.toolness.org was started as a personal project/experiment by my good friend Atul Varma. It's recently gathered a lot of interest within Mozilla; we're talking about maybe eventually making it into a built-in Firefox feature (no promises). As described on mozilla.org/collusion, we've got a grant from the Ford Foundation to support development on it. So yeah, what's happening now is basically that Mozilla is committing some real development resources to turn it into a proper product.
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