[tor-bugs] #3360 [EFF-HTTPS Everywhere]: HTTPS Everywhere breaks translator addons for firefox

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#3360: HTTPS Everywhere breaks translator addons for firefox
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 Reporter:  Dapper                |          Owner:  pde
     Type:  defect                |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:     
Component:  EFF-HTTPS Everywhere  |        Version:     
 Keywords:  Translator addon      |         Parent:     
   Points:                        |   Actualpoints:     
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Comment(by Anna):

 This is because all of these addons use services by google and yahoo who
 do not offer an https connection for the relevant urls.  It's not
 difficult to add an exception to the HTTPS Everywhere rule for googleapis
 which will make these translation addons work again.  You just open the
 https options, uncheck googleapis, get a new copy of the googleapis rule
 from EFF's git repository, add the exclusion line for the url that the
 translation addon uses and then save the rule to your the HTTPS Everywhere
 folder in your browser profile.  I've already done an override of a broken
 rule using this method and it works fine but I'm not sure it's necessarily
 a secure option in this case because I don't know what other uses there
 may be of similar urls to the translation tool (ajax.googleapis.com) and
 what information the addon collects and sends about what you're reading.

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