1287230 - irccloud.mozilla.com pastebin talks to Facebook, Google, Twitter trackers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: Infrastructure: IRC, task)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

When I load e.g. https://irccloud.mozilla.com/pastebin/AHcHhDhR Ghostery informs me that the page is attempting to connect to Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

This is certainly not expected and I dare say not appropriate.

Can we not have the Mozilla-hosted IRCCloud send unnecessary tracking pings?

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Add Stripe and Vine to the list of things that are accessed, per devtools network tab.

Comment 2

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

I also love the 1+ MB JS map file it downloads via XHR on every page load. That's in addition to the 500KB of "application JS" it also loads. pastebin.mozilla.com loads less than 30kb. Just saying.

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

The @irccloud folks have been great to work with in the past.  I think we can reach out ask them nicely to fix this -- and we can probably offer PRs if need be.

While we're on the topic, i use the public version... and notice that features land there before on the corp version.  Are we getting updates on a timely basis.  Something to talk w/ them about.


Jeff -- do you want to reach out, or should I?

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

If you want to ask them directly, a couple of the irccloud devs hang out in #irccloud on our irc network, and they're pretty friendly and answer questions a lot.  Last I saw it discussed in there the current version of irccloud breaks something in our environment and they're still trying to get that working before we can upgrade.  (I'm not involved in irccloud on behalf of Mozilla at all, only reporting what I've seen on IRC)

Comment 5

[James Wheare]

Hi, those are all no longer loaded on pastebin pages, which you can verify on the latest version at irccloud.com. And update is planned for mozilla's instance.

Comment 6

[Ashish Vijayaram [:ashish]]

Mozilla instance updated.