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0 pointspdimitar5y ago0 comments

Super interesting, thank you! I immediately disabled it and will monitor if that improves my page loading speeds.

EDIT: pay no attention to the text below, I have misread the linked documentation. uBO isn't using external proxy for any network requests.

Not sure how much -- or at all -- you're involved with uBO. Your name does ring a bell though so I'd like to remark to you that making the users' browser use proxy is a step too far. It shouldn't automatically be enabled.

A privacy extension should do everything it could locally and stop there. If I one day figure it's not enough then I'll set a privacy VPN (or use an existing one).

I don't want that decision made for me on my own machine without my consent. :(

And apologies if my comment is misguided -- I only skimmed the linked page and I might have misunderstood.

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gorhill5y ago· 1 in thread

> making the users' browser use proxy is a step too far

uBO does not do this, and nowhere is there any suggestion that uBO does this.

Users configure their own network settings, and it was found that in some cases when the browser is configured to go through a proxy (through either OS or browser settings), uBO's CNAME-uncloaking feature, which requires a call to the `dns.resolve()` API[1], would cause undue delay to page load. The root cause is outside uBO and outside the browser, it lies in the proxy.

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[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

pdimitarOP5y ago

Then I have misread. My apologies. Editing the comment above so as not to mislead readers.

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