Sorry for the inactivity and for not maintaining it as well as promised. #10278
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Thank you very much for your answer! Just do the dupe check, and then we will do the work for you ;) Continue to work on your final stage, it is important We can also talk about it on Discord if you want to: And finally, @OhMyGuus, your plugin is very cool! ;) |
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Thank you for the update; I figured you were probably busy with education or something similar. Good stuff on keeping the project alive and kicking! I will continue to make PRs in the future. Take care 👍 |
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Welcome back! |
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Thank you for this extension. It makes the web just a little bit more bearable these days. It's incredible that people manage to keep these projects alive for such a long time. I can't imagine how much work and dedication it requires. |
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Any new news on that? Is still updated? |
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People never like to hear the truth. Those who read it. Deal with it. |
Why did you have deleted the message? |
Well, getting thumbs down from people who want to wait for eternity instead of taking action, if you want to know the whole story with "advanced content" PM me. Cheers I am not here to be taken as a fool, which i am not. thats why i deleted plus let the people who reacted onto it be however they are. ignorant, sort of selfish, religious behaviour, and so on and so forth. :-) |
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@ONE11111111ONE So what's your proposed action? Fork this project? Because it doesn't seem you've created a fork. EDIT: Also, the creator seems to be active, as is evident from the issues he's fixing. |
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Some fanatic with a good heart, good intention and time should do it, since i am 0% programmer. If he has the spirit others will want to be part of it. I will not fork this project. According your edit. Well, then at least i am curious whats gonna happen... |
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On Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:58:39 -0700, existence ***@***.***> wrote:
i am 0% programmer
Me neither.
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Yet, we all know things right. Like seeing that nothing is private here on m$ github like as you posted. I see and know things, which cannot be taken away. If people would know how much power 1 single person has, you guys would just do something about the situation. :-) |
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So, development of this extension is very slow. Reported websites from months ago are not added anymore. What would be a good alternative? ublock with cookie lists or a browser extension like Consent-O-Matic? |
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OK, i am out of this. |
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@OhMyGuus By making this a group effort, it will be more realistic to get through the ever-growing list of issues. Finally, I think people here that are complaining without any technical skills are being way too entitled. If you never wrote a line of code in your life or had to juggle a project like this and your personal life, your contribution to the discussion isn't worth much. You can blabber on about power and knowledge all day, but in the end you are just making noise if you don't tie that to concrete actions. |
Came here looking for info on why i'm seeing cookies everywhere again, it's crazy to me that there are no alternatives or that nobody else has forked it by now since literally everyone that uses a browser in the eu is going to suffer cookie popups everywhere, you'd think more people would be doing something right? I dunno just seems odd to me. Glad we at least have something though. |
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Since its all controlled by the AI MS uses... I cannot talk openly. I cannot program but i can give solutions, like making an e.V. and then organization out it and then get money from sponsors e.V. members and specific ppl... if one needs money as an vehicle to build up the Nr. 1 wordwide cookie (blocker or minimal acceptor). Dragon and so forth. Well i have solutions then... i just need the right people around. Like gorhill from ublock origin. He drives for it all time and is sorrounded by good ppl he can relay on. Man i had ppl during the last days where they went nuts, because isdcac killed the website and it all goes back to the person who gives the recommendation. In the end it goes all back to guus. End of the Story. He gets the credits or debts. And me as well. F... this discord thing. Lets meet on efnet e.g. channel isdcac. I open it tomorrow evening as first step. If anyone is interested into it...feel free to join. I got idieas over the days. Cheers |
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@ONE11111111ONE If you don't have programming or organization skills, you're contributing nothing.
You said this one week ago. Make up your mind. |
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I am not talking about programming, there i am out of it, yet i offer solutions for european, at best german programmers. Cheers Your nickname also btw shows your subconcsious belongings, and i deal with it and dont give a f. Fly back to the deep hole where you re coming from. Make the earth free from this stupid beings. |
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Stop arguing bruddas, there is too much hatred and whining about life, and I say that, not to sound demeaning, but because we have all done the same in the past. I may fork this project, I tried speaking to Gus etc but he has stuff going on in his life I'm pretty sure and is prolly busy. I may ask to be a maintainer of the repo and to continue development. @ONE11111111ONE You are funny bro but please stop now, I do get your frustration really but dont take it out on us, we're trying our best and all contributing to fight this proprietary software, in our own ways. If there are any other possible maintainers, help would be appreciated but not expected. Open source has always been a voluntary team effort, it is not expected. |
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I now switch to "Cookie Dialog Monster", since it is maintained, and finally got an up to date permanent firefox addon (read here or/and here). |
Great news. I'm gonna install it right now. :-) |
Does anyone know what happend to @wanhose and the addon? https://github.com/wanhose just gives a HTTP error 404 now. Now I am trying out "Consent-O-Matic". |
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@dreirund I don't know why, but it is now on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/wanhose/cookie-dialog-monster |
According to the maintainer this is the reason:
Regards! |
And now moved to a self-hosted service:
I wonder a bit if @wanhose is doing some "evil" stuff in the background which makes them blocked, or if it is really the git service providers that are shitty to trust on. (I easily believe the latter, but questions about the former comes into my mind. Has anyone reviewed the code behind "Cookie Dialog Monster", that it is not "phoning home"?) Regards! |
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The GitLab problems are explained in the new readme on https://git.wanhose.dev/wanhose/cookie-dialog-monster About possibly doing "evil" stuff: Around October 4th there was a weird issue with the extension where all YouTube page loads were redirected to a specific video and the channel of that video was automatically subscribed. That was resolved with addon version 7.3.1, but someone might have reported it for being malicious because of that. I do not know if the extension actually does something malicious or if this was just a very weird bug. |
This is far too specific to be just a bug ... |
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:09:21 -0700, d4k0 ***@***.***> wrote:
> About possibly doing "evil" stuff: Around October 4th there was a
> weird issue with the extension where all YouTube page loads were
> redirected to a specific video and the channel of that video was
> automatically subscribed. That was resolved with addon version
> 7.3.1, but someone might have reported it for being malicious
> because of that.
This is far too specific to be just a bug ...
Maybe it was a request to some "generic" (sub)site, and a YouTube
algorithm filled the generic request which what it seemed to be the
"most interesting video" at that time?
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I suggest to discuss "Cookie Dialog Monster"-related stuff over here at it's current repository so that the author can be included. |
I agree, and for anyone reading this I'd like to point them to the official answer to all this "possible evil stuff" from the addon author: https://git.wanhose.dev/wanhose/cookie-dialog-monster/issues/138#issuecomment-415 |
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:16:44 -0700, ColourGrey ***@***.***> wrote:
got into conflict with Firefox (their extension is no longer
published on the FF addons site),
It is, I just found it via their search function:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-dialog-monster/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
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This is a very very old version from 2022 that hardly works properly today. I also don't understand why he in particular has any issues with Mozilla as there are a few other addons with similar functionality there. He doesn't even seem to be trying to get the extension onto the official addon page anymore. Instead, he wants you to download the XPI file from his self-hosted repository. |
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:49:22 -0700, d4k0 ***@***.***>
wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:16:44 -0700, ColourGrey ***@***.***> wrote:
> got into conflict with Firefox (their extension is no longer
> published on the FF addons site), It is, I just found it via their
> search function:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-dialog-monster/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
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This is a very very old version from 2022 that hardly works properly
today. I also don't understand why he in particular has any issues
with Mozilla as there are a few other addons with similar
functionality there.
According to the author:
Lost two factor authentication second factor and was not able to
restore access or the procedure was too complicated.
(I totally can understand this part, having been through a similar
thing at the Arch Linux "SSO" needed to report issues to their
packages, which enforces oath two factor authentication.)
He doesn't even seem to be trying to get the
extension onto the official addon page anymore. Instead, he wants you
to download the XPI file from his self-hosted repository.
For Chromium it is in the official chrome store, though.
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So why doesn't he just create a new account at Mozilla? Why is he so careless with his two-factor authentications, especially as a developer (I'm a software developer myself)? Anyone who does anything with IT knows how important these are and that you have to store them securely. |
Without judging the content of your statement, "carelessness" is something different as doing something evil (which is conscious).
About Gitlab, they stated that the issue just was that, when they mass-imported the GitHub issues to GitLab to have them available there, GitLab's spam detection mechanism did think the issues where spam and did hide them. So, if this is correct, it is not getting into conflict with GitLab but just beeing upset by unwanted automatisms of GitLab. And this gave the impulse for the authors to not rely anymore on third party services. |
It's pretty hard to completely maintain it, especially when you have 8000+ issues to check :/ For example, I can put from 10 seconds to 5 or even 10 minutes for the most sophisticated-techniques to make ONE rule. Sometimes, you have to read through some deliberately obfuscated code, and it can be pretty tough for some people. Multiply this by 8000 (including duplicated issues and so on...), and that's why it's not easy to maintain. |
@azgaresncf: Have you ever asked about how this extension got to 8000+ issues? This happened because the maintainer has stopped working on it for about 10 months already. The best strategy would be for the maintainer to freeze this project, thus sending a strong message to the community of its users to fork it or move elsewhere. Until this happens the users will still cling to the faintest hope of resurrection, and not be motivated to use something else. I totally understand that one's life might get more involved, and that one may no longer have time for small side projects like this one. But then, why not announce this publicly and pass stewardship to someone else, or merge the project with another one? This would be the only ethical approach. |
There are a few forks, e.g. this one which got updates. @OhMyGuus, yes, maybe:
archive this? Regards! |
I'm also trying to do my best as soon as I can to fix some websites |
Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to read the things some of you have said here without being able to respond? It's like you're missing the whole picture. For a while, I felt like I only had two options:
We have a saying in Spain: "Things in the palace move slowly." But after a long month, GitHub finally admitted its mistake. So, let me clear this up. Cookie Dialog Monster is a simple browser extension to hide those constant cookie pop-ups without messing with user preferences. If a site is broken, users can report it, and I'll open an issue in my repository with basic info like the domain and the page URL, which is valuable to me and requires no GitHub account for the user. But here's what happened: GitHub's automated bots scanned my repository, flagged all those URLs as spam, and, just like that, my account (including my repos, contributions, and six years of work) was suspended. It was all gone in seconds, flagged over a misunderstanding. Then we come to GitLab. I was paying nearly €100 a year in hosting and domain costs, and after spending hours migrating everything to GitLab, their bot flagged my issues for having a similar structure to my GitHub issues list—again, spam. Seriously? After more than five years of work, that's the thanks I get? Well, I'm done. I've moved everything to a self-hosted alternative, which saves me money, stress, and—most importantly—gets me out of messes like this. How about Firefox? Look, I lost access to my Firefox account two years ago due to strict 2FA rules, which meant I couldn't recover my keys (not password, I still remember my password). I know some of you are saying, "Well, you should have been more careful." Yes, I get that. But I'm not "perfect" like some people (see @d4k0 who never lost nothing). I'm just someone trying to keep their work accessible, even if that means relying on an outdated version. And you know what? It's still out there, still working, still getting positive reviews, and that means something to me—even if it doesn't to you. I don't think it's too much to ask for people to actually understand what they're talking about before trashing an open-source project. Unlike closed-source software from big companies, with open source, you can inspect every line of code. If you don't understand the code, there are tools (like ChatGPT) to explain it to you. But throwing baseless accusations only hurts the people trying to create something helpful. So, yeah, I'm back, and I'm done with the nonsense. We won't be talking again here, this thread has a completely different purpose. |
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@wanhose, 🎉 :-) 💚
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@wanhose, how come the thousands of sites reported by users for this extension have never triggered GitHub's spam detector? Or the reports for EasyList cookie list? I am not necessarily suspecting you of any evil, but you should probably adopt the same techniques as those projects in order not to trigger the GitHub robots. Concerning Firefox: all right, your explanation is reasonable, I buy it. But why not contact the Firefox team, explaining to them what happened? Or why not simply create another account (and then ask the Firefox team to merge the two)? Frankly, when you write stuff like "This is yet another attempt to bring down this project", this sounds like a conspiracy theory (the big bad Mossad & CIA pulling strings in order to silence the little rebel Firefox extension), so I hope that you will agree that your too passionate tone can make some have some doubts. Especially in 2024, when plenty of conspiracy theories have come to replace common sense. |
and others
Sorry all for the inactivity, and not maintaining it as well as promised.
I have been working on my studies for the past few months, which are now in the final stage, meaning you have to follow an internship, and about 60+ hours a week have gone into this.
Sadly, this meant that I didn't have the energy to work on this project. Now, there is a spark of hope; my studies will most likely conclude successfully on January 16th. After that, I will have six weeks of holiday to bring this project and my other projects back on track, and following that period, I will have time alongside work to continue on this and my other projects.
If there are big sites not working, just @OhMyGuus and then I will get a notification on my phone and then I can still work on it.
I will also test and merge all the PR's that are currently open and do a release today/tomorrow.
If there are any questions or things put it here or you can always contact me on discord: thaguus
Just a note: reporting websites is down for a couple of hours going to remove the dupes + add a dupe check.
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