"Share Button" opens empty PopUp Menu

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"Share Button" opens empty PopUp Menu

Closed this issue 4 years ago · 9 comments

AlbinoGeek commented 4 years ago

On an app listing page (again, using this as an example:)
https://apps.fyne.io/apps/com.GitHub.mehrdad-dev.jami.html

There is a share icon in the top right of the main content container.

Clicking this currently opens an empty PopUp.

Answer 1 · 2021-01-29T18:42:12.000Z

I see the following:

What do you see?

Answer 2 · 2021-01-30T04:53:37.000Z

I see... a lot of console security warnings/errors, and the HTML items in that dropdown are commented out on pageload.

That means (somehow) these links are triggering my security extensions. The only obvious block I can see on that page is a reference to cdn.viglink.com which is on my tracker blacklist. The above is replicated in Firefox 84.0.2 (64-bit) for Fedora 33 Workstation

My Firefox Security Extensions:

AdBlock Plus Fork (Disabled for http*://*.fyne.io/*
Decentraleyes (0 filters applied on https://apps.fyne.io/*)
Privacy Badger/Possom Fork (1 learned filter (viglink))

I also have Firefox' built-in "Enhanced Trackers Blocking" enabled.

Chrome with a clean profile produces the same empty share menu, and new console errors:

(Again, not a fan of pixel tracking, why is this here, I'm opening a new issue for that...)

Answer 3 · 2021-01-30T15:27:07.000Z

Here Chrome does not do this. It looks like you have google analytics blocked.
We use google analytics to try and get a feel for how popular the pages and apps are.

Answer 4 · 2021-01-30T15:48:48.000Z

Could we switch to something else than Google analytics instead? It really is a nightmare for privacy.

Answer 5 · 2021-01-30T15:59:10.000Z

Any hosted service that is available to us for free would be an acceptable replacement for sure.

Answer 6 · 2021-01-30T23:19:38.000Z

viglink isn't googletagmanager isnt analytics.google.com -- the latter two I have enabled/unblocked.
[ The last two are only the same thing if you are using Google's new non-analytics-specific tracking code. ]

Which, yes, nightmare to privacy. But.. viglink is a larger nightmare to privacy, hence, concerned that it's there.

Answer 7 · 2021-02-01T21:01:55.000Z

It seems to be called by the Disqus plugin.
If there is a better free alternative we could switch it out - there are not too many comments that would be lost at this stage.
Ideally it would have a jekyll plugin so we don't have to code it up!

Answer 8 · 2021-02-02T01:33:31.000Z

Personally, I like Plausible¹ or GoatAnalytics² when it comes to privacy-focused analytics platforms.

Both projects are completely open source.

Plausible¹ works out to roughly $4/mo if you choose not to host it yourself.

GoatAnalytics² hosted is free for non-commercial use on metrics for the first 100k pageviews per month.

I will reply again when I find a suitable alternative for Disqus.

Answer 9 · 2021-02-26T16:08:14.000Z

Alright, unfortunately there really isn't a suitable replacement if we don't want to do data-basing or otherwise add an external dependency, even a free public hosted database -- it's just more work for the team than I'd like to propose.

Sorry about all that!

I will fork the previous message out to its own issue in regards to Analytics privacy.

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