"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sending data to Google

Re:"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sendi... by Groxx on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @02:46PM (#1552249)

From a comment:

>Didn’t show any alerts when I hit google.co.uk

Which probably means it's just looking for links to "google.com" in the page. In which case I'd doubt it'd catch connections in flash files, and it probably false-positives if you have blockers in place. (edit: checked the JS file, that's exactly what it does. Looks for URLs of: google, gmail.com, youtube.com, blogspot.com)

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Re:"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sendi... by Groxx on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @05:38PM (#1552823)

late-edit:

Correction, they search all elements for these domains / files:

  google
  gmail.com
  youtube.com
  blogspot.com
  google-analytics.com/urchin.js
  google-analytics.com/ga.js
  googlesyndication.com
  show_ads.js
  doubleclick.net
  youtube.com/v/

And finally a ++ if you're using Chrome. Fairly sure that's all of them, I finally opened the file in a proper editor.

And, importantly, it appears they're searching for that text, not attributes, so this post will probably set off the alarms.

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Re:"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sendi... by pbiggar on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @04:43AM (#1553892)

If this is true (and I have no reason to doubt you), then the extension is so inaccurate as to be useless. In Firefox at least, there are hooks to do everything you need to do a real implementation.

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Re:"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sendi... by Groxx on Saturday July 31, 2010 @04:53PM (#1564234)

Just installed the Chrome version, and ran it on that comment's page. Results:

  Google Analytics
  Google AdSense
  Youtube Embed
  Google Chrome

And the Firefox plugin's results are coming once I get it downloaded & install the plugin. I'll edit here, and probably blog about it due to its inaccuracy (stupidity should be exposed!!!).

edit: Firefox's results mirror it exactly, minus the Chrome one of course. Plugin review result: utterly worthless.

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