Google AJAX Library

  • Resolved Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    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!

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  • Plugin Author Alex Volkov

    (@vol4ikman)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    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)

    7 years, 4 months ago

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

    Plugin Author Alex Volkov

    (@vol4ikman)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    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)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    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)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Google is everywhere today =)

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    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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