> Disable analytics tracking by opening the extension options for The Great Suspender and checking the box “Automatic deactivation of any kind of tracking”.
> Pray that the shady developer doesn’t issue a malicious update to The Great Suspender later. (There’s no sensible way to disable updates of an individual extension.)
Does Debian ship packages for individual browser extensions?
I mean, if they do I'm sure it's not scalable and-- after spending time reading debuild manual-- a giant, archaic pain in the ass.
On the other hand, all these app delivery systems are so damned pernicious and require constant vigilance. We may have arrived at a moment in time where this is actually a difficult decision:
* pay somebody a living wage to burrow down into Debian's WoT bureaucracy and add at least a selection of this functionality without phoning home
* continue playing the most tedious game of whackamole with a whackamole game that mines all our data in order to learn how best to beat all users at whackamole
> Pray that the shady developer doesn’t issue a malicious update to The Great Suspender later. (There’s no sensible way to disable updates of an individual extension.)
Does Debian ship packages for individual browser extensions?
I mean, if they do I'm sure it's not scalable and-- after spending time reading debuild manual-- a giant, archaic pain in the ass.
On the other hand, all these app delivery systems are so damned pernicious and require constant vigilance. We may have arrived at a moment in time where this is actually a difficult decision:
* pay somebody a living wage to burrow down into Debian's WoT bureaucracy and add at least a selection of this functionality without phoning home
* continue playing the most tedious game of whackamole with a whackamole game that mines all our data in order to learn how best to beat all users at whackamole