Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GoogleSharing add-on for Icecat

[al3xu5 / dotcommon]

Il giorno sabato 18/01/2014 14:51:09 CET
dissonant9 <address@hidden> ha scritto:

> [...] I discovered that the actual plugin
> that is listed as "Google Sharing" is called "Do Not Track me." by
> Abine inc. 
> http://www.googlesharing.net/

The Abine website says: "DoNotTrackMe is formerly DoNotTrackPlus" (not Google
Sharing); and the products listed in their web site do not seem to include GS:
https://abine.com/products/index.php

But http://www.googlesharing.net/ redirects to Abine... so it seems the domain
googlesharing.net is owned by Abine now...



> After installing, I went to Abine's website to double-check the
> license.  I learned that it is actually proprietary software.

> Here is the URL for DNTme's licensing:
> https://abine.com/license-agreement/


The Mozilla addons page:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googlesharing/
says GS is GPLv3.... The addon .xpi file dowloadable from this page
contains a COPYING file which is the GPLv3 license.

So, the license policy at the Abine web site seems to be related to their other
products (DNTme etc.), not to GS.

Anyway it seems there is something strange...


There is also a page at the Riseup web site about GS:
https://www.riseup.net/en/googlesharing
Note that Riseup runs a GS proxy: 
googlesharing.riseup.net
which should be used instedad of the Abine's GS proxy at:
proxy.googlesharing.net


I am not 100% sure if using GS is still safe... Anyway it is certainly better
to setup GS to use the Riseup's GS proxy (and I have also deleted the Abine's
GS proxy).


Other thoughts?

Regards
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