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#1 2014-10-08 22:18:17

mmoy
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France
2014-08-18
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Built-in tracker in Fotorama plugin :-(

Hello/Hi/Greetings,

I just noticed that the Fotorama plugin was indirectly spying on its users: fotorama.js loads in an iframe the URL http://data.fotorama.io/?version='+fotoramaVersion, which itself triggers a request to http://mc.yandex.ru/watch/25506206?page … -info=.... (as I understand it, the double indirection hides the referrer, the page-url= argument points to data.fotorama.io). It does not disappear with Do-Not-Track set.

That seems to be quite strongly conflicting with Piwigo's principles (both piwigo.org and piwigo.com actually).

Fortunately, this is quite easy to disable, using e.g. [extension by ddtddt] Add < head > Element and this script:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.blockFotoramaData = true;
</script>

but that would be much better to either completely disable it in the Fotorama plugin, or at least to have a tickbox to enable or disable it (preferably an opt-in IMHO).

Thanks,

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#2 2014-10-08 22:23:48

plg
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2002-04-05
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Re: Built-in tracker in Fotorama plugin :-(

it stinks! cool you saw it mmoy!

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#3 2014-10-08 22:31:16

mmoy
Member
France
2014-08-18
85

Re: Built-in tracker in Fotorama plugin :-(

Not really what I was looking for actually: I was trying to see whether preloading worked correctly with Firefox's console, and was quite surprised to see this URL in the middle of mine!

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#4 2014-10-09 09:40:22

JanisV
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2013-09-25
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Re: Built-in tracker in Fotorama plugin :-(

The KGB is watching you! :)

mmoy, thank you for report! Some description on Fotorama project - [Github] fotorama issue #299

Will be disabled in next version.

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#5 2014-12-11 20:52:32

Cathy Shapiro
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Re: Built-in tracker in Fotorama plugin :-(

Just saw this on firebug, and was super pissed! Am removing fotorama pronto!

 

#6 2014-12-11 21:27:36

mmoy
Member
France
2014-08-18
85

Re: Built-in tracker in Fotorama plugin :-(

Its now disabled in Fotorama plug-in.

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