Let me start off by saying I found that menu item yesterday to show the green status. I clicked everything in sight. Ah the jigsaw puzzle icon. How obvious. (I’m being facetious here). I use Ctrl+Shift+A when I want to go to extensions or the menu Tools/Settings
I kind of figured that out by looking more carefully at the logs but it should not be in red. Red says red alert with sirens blaring and flashing lights. Just a warning would do or just stating it would do. The paper I mentioned above clearly states this can happen. (I had to read it again of course)
I gave 2 solutions for the consent thing. One is coding and the other a webpage change (easy). Another is to directly say so on the addon page in big bold letters that by adding the Snowlake extension you directly consent to blah blah blah politics politics etc etc and then make it the default.
AH I see you use Privacy Badger too.
I also came up with another problem which might not fit within this thread. Either the extension hangs or the inspector hangs. I suspect the former. Maybe I will spin this off on new thread. I kept logs.
In reading those logs I see IP addresses of potential clients and they are all in those repressive countries we talk about who say they are not but where using Tor can land you in jail.
Now, if I can see these, what stops agents of those repressive countries from doing the same and taking action.
There sure seems to be many IFs, ANDs, ORs, ELSEs, BUTs and GOTCHAs on this thing.
A good idea but the purpose of these machines is to do community computing in the medical and health science field for three different research centers. I figured one could be a Snowflake proxy via Firefox since that would not be heavy on resources.