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Sid: Mobile data while travelling in Great Britain

nospam@example.com (Sid) — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:40:41 +0000

They do allow you to opt out and provide a service that at least some people would find valuable (avoiding data use by shrinking images). They don't attempt to sabotage SSL either. I think what they're doing is fine.

Any service that asks for or sends passwords over plain http is broken and shouldn't be used anyway.

Dustin J. Mitchell: Mobile data while travelling in Great Britain

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:32:01 +0000

True enough - but security is different from privacy. If I want to protect my money from thieves, I had better lock it up. But I have a reasonable expectation that, for example, hotel housekeeping will not rifle through my belongings in the name of optimizing my online experience.

I expect mobile data to work like terrestrial data: get my bits to their destination unmolested, at most filtering on the L3 envelope. I don't recall the details of common-carrier laws, but certainly transparent proxying with modification does not qualify.

Sid: Mobile data while travelling in Great Britain

nospam@example.com (Sid) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:42:55 +0000

What exactly is the issue with injecting JavaScript into non-SSL connections? All such connections are compromised anyway.

Dustin J. Mitchell: Mobile data while travelling in Great Britain

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:41:36 +0000

excellent - thanks!

dave: Mobile data while travelling in Great Britain

nospam@example.com (dave) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:11:39 +0000

I'm on T-mobile. I think they're one of the most data friendly providers as they only throttle you after you hit your limit (and even then don't throttle basic traffic).

I think you can disable it here:

http://accelerator.t-mobile.co.uk/

Which I'd done so long ago I'd actually forgotten that I'd done it.

Dustin J. Mitchell: Trapped in Google?

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:38:25 +0000

Indeed - I should have updated the post when that occurred. I am copied on the bug where they fixed it.

Stormy: Trapped in Google?

nospam@example.com (Stormy) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:44:22 +0000

Google fixed this. If you are still seeing it, you should file a bug, so we can be sure to get it fixed.

nemo: Trapped in Google?

nospam@example.com (nemo) — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:41:01 +0000

Odd. Worked for me. Admittedly haven't tried it in a few weeks. Wonder if it requires some cookie clearing or something silly like that. But. Yeah, they really are shooting themselves in the foot on this one.

Dustin J. Mitchell: Trapped in Google?

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:54:07 +0000

Phony didn't help, actually.

But I switched to Yahoo for searches on mobile. I might do the same for desktop..

nemo: Trapped in Google?

nospam@example.com (nemo) — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:50:24 +0000

Yeah, that really annoys me too. All the fun of broken/unreadable sites with the added bonus of being monitored by Google's proxies...

I sent a complaining feedback 'bout it, but they appear set on this irritating course.

Phony does work, but then you don't have the Android UA for sites that could use that information :(

Another solution is just switching to Duck Duck Go.

Dustin J. Mitchell: Trapped in Google?

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:24:17 +0000

I accidentally had comments turned off, but :kang suggested using the Phony add-on to emulate Firefox Desktop.

Dustin J. Mitchell: IT and Community

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:25:17 +0000

Yes, that looks quite helpful!

I'll let the IT folks know about the [mentor=..] tag, and see if we can add those as necessary/possible.

Thanks!

David Boswell: IT and Community

nospam@example.com (David Boswell) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:36 +0000

This is great. Being more clear about opportunities people can take on should make it easier for people to get started.

One thought about your bug list -- have you thought of also marking these as mentored bugs? This will show new contributors that there are people available who will help with any problems they have working through a task. More about that at

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mentors

And to help people find the right bug from them, Josh Matthews has put together a demo that offers a way to search through open mentored bugs based on certain criteria.

http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/

If this looks like it would be helpful for IT bugs, let me know.

Dustin J. Mitchell: IT and Community

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:19:59 +0000

If you have a bugzilla account, you should be able to add the "good-first-bug" search to your footer; see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi.

Dustin J. Mitchell: Nagios NSCA from Python

nospam@example.com (Dustin J. Mitchell) — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:07:54 +0000

In this particular case, the monitored hosts cannot run any services (they are talos systems, used for performance testing, and thus can't be spending CPU cycles servicing requests at odd moments). So this has to be a passive check result sent directly from the host to the server.