Re: Latest NoScript version (1.9.2) breaks Adblock Plus
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 8:27 pm
Just to give an idea of where I am coming from, this is speaking as one of the people that currently has NS uninstalled due to all this on my main computer, albeit with it installed on my laptop so that I can investigate the changes. I loved the addon before, it just feels like a betrayal of trust for such a security oriented addon to do what seems to be one of the very things it is used to prevent in order to try to drive up its own revenue. But, I'm not here just to complain about things - considerably more people than necessary have already done so What I am here about is to look at how things can be fixed and the community brought back to peace again.
Removing the filterset was a good first step, but some people feel betrayed enough by this whole thing that it isn't enough by itself to bring people back. As a second step, as a show of sincerity, perhaps you should add an option to the normal options menu of NS to disable NS's page displaying every time it updates? Many people now consider the fact that it displays so often to be purely an attempt to drive ad impressions after this whole ordeal - it was something that's annoyed people for a long time, with people wondering why it couldn't be disabled (or for those who knew about the config setting, why it was so buried and hidden). Adding this long-requested feature might do some good toward patching your and NS's reputation on account of this whole ordeal.
That, and I would really like to see a proper and thorough explanation for the 1.9.2 obfuscated code incident.
But first, sleep, you've corrected the immediate problem, and going further isn't worth a risk to your health.
Removing the filterset was a good first step, but some people feel betrayed enough by this whole thing that it isn't enough by itself to bring people back. As a second step, as a show of sincerity, perhaps you should add an option to the normal options menu of NS to disable NS's page displaying every time it updates? Many people now consider the fact that it displays so often to be purely an attempt to drive ad impressions after this whole ordeal - it was something that's annoyed people for a long time, with people wondering why it couldn't be disabled (or for those who knew about the config setting, why it was so buried and hidden). Adding this long-requested feature might do some good toward patching your and NS's reputation on account of this whole ordeal.
That, and I would really like to see a proper and thorough explanation for the 1.9.2 obfuscated code incident.
But first, sleep, you've corrected the immediate problem, and going further isn't worth a risk to your health.