• Resolved Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)


    Does WAH free use the Google AJAX Library? I am seeing a call for it in Privacy Badger when I access the administrator site.

    If so, is there a way to use those scripts locally instead? I do not like using Google APIs because it is very, very bad for privacy and security — it exposes administrative users’ IP and user agent to Google, allowing them to spy on me!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Alex Volkov

    (@vol4ikman)

    WAH uses jQuery UI script from Google:
    https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.3/jquery-ui.min.js”

    If you do not like it, you can change it on plugins/wp-accessibility-helper/wp-accessibility-helper.php file at line 103

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    Is there a way to do that that won’t just get overwritten next time the plugin is updated?

    Plugin Author Alex Volkov

    (@vol4ikman)

    Nope.

    I prefer performance and stability for my plugins.
    Google it the better CDN provider for now.

    Maybe in the next plugin releases I will change that, but not for now.
    Thanks

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    Stability and performance are important, I agree. I just really am not happy about exposing my IP address to Google each time I access the administrator dashboard.

    Plugin Author Alex Volkov

    (@vol4ikman)

    Google is everywhere today =)

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    That’s the whole problem! Sometimes, there’s no way around it, but it’s best avoided as much as possible. The APIs are concerning because they’re not apparent to most users — I wouldn’t have caught it except that the Privacy Badger browser extension started warning me of a tracker on the Dashboard — and there’s no way to opt out of data collection.

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