Building a Better Web
June 11–12, 2018: Training
June 12–14, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA

Rebuilding a browser extension for privacy

Princiya Sequeira (Zalando)
9:00am–9:40am Thursday, June 14, 2018
Security
Location: 212 A/B
Secondary topics:  Hands-on, Technical, Web Pillars Track: Performance, Security, Accessibility
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Who is this presentation for?

  • JavaScript enthusiasts

Prerequisite knowledge

  • A working knowledge of JavaScript and ES6

What you'll learn

  • Understand browser extension APIs
  • Learn how to build browser extensions for privacy and security
  • Discover Canvas-based graph optimization lessons focusing on performance

Description

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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Princiya Sequeira

Zalando

Princiya Sequeira is a software engineer at Zalando.

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Princiya Sequeira | SOFTWARE ENGINEER
04/03/2018 4:54am PDT

As a first step to this session, I have made a cartoon on web-tracking! https://princiya777.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/web-tracking-cartoon/ Do you care for privacy? Then you need to understand the basics.