Subject: Re: [bug#74812] [PATCH v2] gnu: Add privacy-redirect-icecat.

From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:51:01 -0500

Hi,

Apologies for the late reply.

Hilton Chain <[email-masked]> writes:
> * gnu/packages/browser-extensions.scm (privacy-redirect)
> (privacy-redirect/icecat): New variables.

[...]

> +(define privacy-redirect
> +  (package
> +    (name "privacy-redirect")
> +    (version "1.1.49")
> +    (source
> +     (origin
> +       (method git-fetch)
> +       (uri (git-reference
> +             (url "https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect")

If you check the git repository above, I think you'll find that it has
not been updated in over 3 years, and that most (if not all) of the
sites that it redirects to no longer work.  Therefore, I see no benefit
to adding this package in its current form.

There's also an additional problem: GNU IceCat comes bundled with a
modified and updated version of this extension.  I have concerns about
how GNU IceCat might be affected if this extremely out-of-date extension
is installed in the user's profile.

What do you think?

      Thanks,
        Mark