December 14, 2019

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Rebuilding a browser extension for privacy

Rebuilding a browser extension for privacy

Browser extensions built with the WebExtensions APIs are compatible with all modern browsers. Princiya Sequeira shares lessons learned migrating a legacy privacy add-on to a web extension, with performance being the key factor. Along the way, you'll explore all things web tracking.
Talk Title Rebuilding a browser extension for privacy
Speakers Princiya Sequeira (Zalando)
Conference O’Reilly Fluent Conference
Conf Tag The Web Platform in Practice
Location San Jose, California
Date June 12-14, 2018
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
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Browser extensions built with the WebExtensions APIs are compatible with all modern browsers. Princiya Sequeira shares lessons learned migrating a legacy privacy add-on to a web extension—a first-party/third-party tracker visualizing tool. Along the way, you’ll learn about backend asynchronous data capture and storage and frontend Canvas-based graph visualizations and explore all things web tracking.

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