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Threlly's avatar
Threlly
Collaborator | Level 8
6 years ago

Why So Much Telemetry ?

Hi All,   My Pi Hole is blocking an INCREDIBLE amount of DropBox telemetry, even more than Windows telemetry, and by a large margin. So I have a few questions. 1. What is this telemetry for ? 2....
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anforowicz's avatar
anforowicz
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Hello,

 

I am a Chrome Engineer, working for the Chrome Security team.  In Chrome 85, a security feature called CORS-for-content-scripts has shipped - after Chrome 85 content scripts can no longer bypass CORS, even if an extension has permission to the target host.  The Chrome 85 changes have been announced in March 2020 on chromium-extensions@ discussion list, as well as in Chrome Enterprise Release notes.

 

The "Dropbox for GMail" Chrome Extension has been identified as affected by Chrome telemetry in earlier Chrome versions.  An email notification to CWS@dropbox.com (the email registered in Chrome Web Store) was sent out in June 2020.  To avoid disruptions, the extension has been put on a temporary "allowlist" that exempts the extension from Chrome 85 changes (as we've announced earlier, the "allowlist" is being removed in Chrome 87).  Our manual testing indicates that the "Dropbox for GMail" Chrome Extension has not yet migrated to the new security model and will stop working in Chrome 87 (starting with version 87.0.4266.0, currently in the Chrome Canary channel).

 

Please migrate the "Dropbox for GMail" Chrome Extension to the new security model as soon as possible.  The tentative Chrome 87 release schedule is to ship to the Beta channel on 2020-10-15 and to start rolling out the Stable channel on 2020-11-17.  More details about the changes and migration guidelines are available at https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/extension-content-script-fetches.

 

Best regards,

 

Lukasz Anforowicz

edie828's avatar
edie828
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

I read the "fix" script.  No way am I equipped to figure this out.  Is there a plain English version that I can access?  My business is being severely affected by what I think this problem is.

 

When I try to download the attachment to the dropbox using the chrome extension (in ANY of my gmail accounts), nothing happens.  Everything was seamless and problem-free until a few days ago.

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    6 years ago

    Hi there edie828; thanks for joining our discussion here.

     

    May I ask which exact version of Chrome are you noticing this on and if it persists after clearing your browser's cache? 

     

    Thanks!

    • edie828's avatar
      edie828
      Helpful | Level 5
      6 years ago

      Version 85.0.4183.121 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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