Firefox will soon get the Manifest V3 support and I've got a couple of things to say about that. First of all, Manifest V3 is not an inherently bad idea like some news outlet assumed. The spec can be improved, that's why the W3C group exists.
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The problem is that Google refuses to adopt the most important bits of the developers' feedback. But I am very glad to see that @mozilla on the contrary does listen to us and their version will be better in every way.
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Oct 28, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Here's another story about @AdGuard. Our iOS app is open source, the code is published on Github. Sometimes, we spot clones that just copy the code and pop up on @AppStore under a different name. But today I've encountered probably the most blatant rip-off in my life.
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Yesterday our server started receiving strange "check in-app subscription" requests. You see, the requests looked like they were sent from AdGuard apps, but there was actually no subscription with that token, and the requests looked kinda off a bit.
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Oct 4, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
We just had a serious outage of @AdGuard DNS, but it was actually caused by @Facebook. What happened and how on earth @AdGuard may depend on FB? Let me try to explain. (1/9)
Everything started with Facebook name servers going down today. AdGuard DNS connects to them in order to find out the addresses of Facebook domains. So, they went down and now AdGuard DNS was responding with error to every request for FB domains’ addresses. (2/9)
Feb 10, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Something not good was going on with the Chrome WebStore since November, but this case is definitely a culmination.
Dashlane password manager (3M+ users) was removed today for who knows what reason:
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First of all, the CWS team was trying to solve a really serious issue - tons of malware and adware extensions that were overwhelming the CWS. The obvious solution was to introduce a manual moderation process and that's exactly what they did.
