Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings

Re:Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens fro... by RussianCow on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:08PM (#17084864)

The addon is open source (this HN post even links to the GitHub), and the source code is very short, so it's easy to verify that it's doing only what it says. If you are extra paranoid about the addon in the Chrome store not reflecting what's in the repo, you can always install it from source.

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Re:Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens fro... by unbeli on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:14PM (#17084940)

This is wishful thinking. How confident are you that you'll spot a well planted backdoor? Hint: the more capable you are, the less confident you should be.

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Re:Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens fro... by krageon on Thursday May 17, 2018 @10:42AM (#17091656)

If you're that paranoid, it's actually not very hard to audit the code in this case. Unless you go so far as to not trust the whole stack it's running on, but in that case you should stop using your browser entirely. For a sane threat model the confidence in your own audit should be reasonably high.

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