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Privacy browser plugins deny access to online codebase/repository resources #18

@martinlyra

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@martinlyra

Describe the bug
Third-party privacy plugins, such as DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, finds the Github repo downloading suspicious and blocks it after reaching usually at least 1/4 or 1/3 of codebase resources downloaded. Blocking them with "CORS request failed" in the case of Firefox.

What browser are you using?
Firefox 82.02 (64-bit)

Additional context
While this is not much an issue or critical. Because the easiest way around this is to disable the plugins themselves or add the website as an exclusion to the plugin's list or database. In the case of DuckDuckGo's plugin, I just reported it as "Content is Broken" and then the plugin stopped blocking the downloads since then.

But because the issue is oddly specific and the error messages themselves are extremely unhelpful to the point of useless. Most privacy plugins also work silently, reinforcing the belief that the error is at fault of the creator, hosts, or the services themselves.

I recommend to just slap on a "wontfix" tag and leave this up for the future user who suffers the same issue.

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