This commit introduces a universal binary format in the distributed MDG
files for macOS, improving support for both Apple Silicon (ARM) and
Intel (x64) architectures.
It uses `electron-builder` to package both architectures into a single
executable, ensuring the application can natively on any macOS hardware
without depending on the GitHub runners' architecture. It fixes the
issue related to prior releases that supported only the architecture of
the build environment itself, which is subject to change.
Changes:
- Update DMG distribution to include both ARM64 and x64 architectures.
- Enhance system requirements documentation to reflect support for both
architectures.
- Modify CI/CD workflows to check desktop runtime errors for both ARM64
and x64 versions on macOS.
Resolves:
- Issue #348: Initial request for Apple Silicon support.
- Issue #362: Correction of distribution limited to ARM64 in release
0.13.3.
`electron-builder` support:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#5475
- electron-userland/electron-builder#5689
- electron-userland/electron-builder#5426
The recent addition of revert logic in first visible card on Windows
(Privacy Cleanup) in cec0b4b, introduced an issue where end-to-end (e2e)
started failing due to the handling of hidden elements.
This commit improves the test to correctly handle the hidden card
scenario, explicitly filtering visible elements to ensure that only
visible elements are handled.
This commit standardizes the management of registry keys and their
corresponding revert on delete action across all scripts using
`SetRegistryValue` function.
It improves script reliability, addresses previous errors, and corrects
the revert actions to match the default OS state when not explicitly set
by the OS.
Key changes:
- Use SetRegistryValue for uniformity.
- Remove error messages for non-existent registry keys, recognizing them
as expected states rather than errors.
- Add missing revert actions to scripts where they were absent.
- Correct the revert logic in existing scripts to match the default OS
configurations, particularly when the OS does not set a default value.
- Update documentation about default OS state for the related scripts.
This change improves maintainability by centralizing and standardizing
registry interactions, reducing the risk of errors and inconsistencies
in script behaviors.
The GitHub workflow for testing Docker builds on macOS was consistently
failing. This commit downgrades the macOS version used for Docker tests
to `macos-13`, which is the latest Intel-based macOS runner, instead of
the ARM-based `macos-14` which `macos-latest` points to.
This change is necessary because the hypervisor framework required for
Docker is not supported on the ARM-based macOS runners provided by
GitHub. This issue was causing failures when attempting to run Colima
with QEMU using `-accel hvf`, which is unsupported on these runners.
Switching to an Intel-based runner resolves this issue.
Related issues:
- actions/runner-images#9460
- actions/runner-images#9741
- abiosoft/colima#1023
This commit adds checks to rjeect functions with empty or whitespace
names. The compiler throws a specific errror when it encounters a
function data object lacking a proper name.
This provides early detection and clear feedback on invalid function
definitions, helping in faster debugging and ensuring script integrity
in the compilation process.
The enhancement aims to provide early detection and clear feedback
on invalid function definitions, aiding in faster debugging and
ensuring script integrity in the compilation process.
when it encounters a function data object lacking a proper name.
It covers scenarios where the function name might be an empty string,
undefined, or solely consist of whitespace.
This commit restructures the categorization of network security-related
scripts to improve clarity and align with user expectations. It involves
renaming and reorganizing categories to more accurately reflect their
functions beyond just IIS configurations.
This reorganization helps users find and utilize network security
scripts more efficiently and ensures that the categorization accurately
reflects the broader application of the scripts beyond server
configurations.
Changes:
- Merge network security enhancements under a single category.
- Rename categories for simplicity and increased technical accuracy.
- Flatten nested categories to streamline navigation and enhance
clarity.
- Update documentation to match the new category structures.
- Revise script recommendations to encourage broader use.
- Fix revert codes of some related scripts to reflect default OS
settings.
This commit addresses the issue where Windows GitHub runners experience
failures due to unstable Node.js releases, particularly version 20.13.0,
as detailed in nodejs/node#52884 and nodejs/node#52682.
The 'check-latest' input in the 'setup-node' GitHub Action forces
every job to verify and potentially install the latest Node.js version.
This input was originally introduced to reduce maintenance efforts to
keep CI/CD setup up-to-date with the latest Node version.
However, the necessity to always run the latest Node.js version is not
critical for the CI/CD setup. Additionally, it causes increased network
requests and may inadvertently introduce unstable Node.js versions.
This commit removes the 'check-latest' option to prevent the immediate
adoption of new, potentially unstable Node.js releases, thus simplifying
the CI/CD pipeline. This keeps CI/CD process is robust and predictable,
reducing the chances of unexpected disruptions in service deployment.
This commit addresses an issue in Chromium on Linux and Windows where
the appearance of a vertical scrollbar causes unexpected horizontal
layout shifts. This behavior typically occurs when the window is
resized, a card is opened or a script is selected, resulting in content
being pushed to the left.
The solution implemented involves using `scrollbar-gutter: stable` to
ensure space is always allocated for the scrollbar, thus preventing any
shift in the page layout. This fix primarily affects Chromium-based
browsers on Linux and Windows. It has no impact on Firefox on any
platform, or any browser on macOS (including Chromium). Because these
render the scrollbar as an overlay, and do not suffer from this issue.
Steps to reproduce the issue using Chromium browser on Linux/Windows:
1. Open the app with a height large enough where a vertical scrollbar is
not visible.
2. Resize the window to a height that triggers a vertical scrollbar.
3. Notice the layout shift as the body content moves to the right.
Changes:
- Add a CSS mixin to handle scrollbar gutter allocation with a fallback.
- Add support for modal dialog background lock to handle
`scrollbar-gutter: stable;` in calculations to avoid layout shift when
a modal is open.
- Add E2E test to avoid regression.
- Update DevToolkit to accommodate new scrollbar spacing.
This commit fixes a bug that causes tooltips to be slightly misaligned.
Tooltip positioning was incorrect during modal transitions due to their
initial movement, causing tooltips to align incorrectly at the start of
the animation rather than the end.
One way to solve this would be using `autoUpdate` from `floating-ui`
with `animationFrame: true`. However, this recalculates positions tens
of times per second, impacting performance. This is a monkey solution.
This commit adopts a more efficient approach by updating tooltip
positions only at the end of the transitions, which reduces calculations
and conserves resources.
Key changes:
- Addd transition end event listener for updating tooltip positions.
- Use throttling to eliminate excessive position recalculations.
Other supporting changes:
- Improve throttle function to support efficient recalculations of
positions:
- Add ability to optionally exclude the first execution (leading
call).
- Refactor to simplify it make it easier to follow and read.
- Fix a bug where initial calls were incorrectly throttled if
`dateNow()` returned `0`.
- Introduce and use a global hook for efficient DOM event management.
This greatily introduce safety, reuse and testability of event
listening.
This commit addresses the issue where scripts fail to execute on Windows
environments with usernames containing spaces. The problem stemmed from
PowerShell and cmd shell's handling of spaces in quoted arguments.
The solution involves encoding PowerShell commands before execution,
which mitigates the quoting issues previously causing script failures.
This approach is now integrated into the execution flow, ensuring that
commands are correctly handled irrespective of user names or other
variables that may include spaces.
Changes:
- Implement encoding for PowerShell commands to handle spaces in usernames
and other similar scenarios.
- Update script documentation URLs to reflect changes in directory
structure.
Fixes#351
- Correct incorrect attribute in `configure_vscode.py`.
- Introduce CI tests for early error detection in the script.
- Replace emojis with ASCII in CI logs to avoid Windows encoding issues.
This commit refines the configuration of TLS and DTLS protocols on
Windows to enhance compatibility and stability across different
Windows versions.
Changes:
- Enable TLS 1.3 exclusively on Windows 11 and newer, addressing
stability concerns with previous Windows versions, and resolving
issue #175.
- Enable DTLS 1.2, replacing DTLS 1.3 due to lack of support in
Windows. DTLS is enabled only on Windows 10 version 16007 and later
for compatibility.
- Reorganize script categories for better clarity and manageability.
- Update revert codes for registry deletions to prevent false negative
error outputs.
- Adjust recommendation levels to encourage more scripts due to system
stability and documentation improvements introduced in this commit.
- Remove incorrect registry keys previously set for .NET apps.
- Add missing 64-bit registry keys for .NET apps.
- Rename scripts for improved simplicity and consistency.
- Improve documentation for affected scripts, correcting the
misleading information about DTLS 1.2 vulnerability.
- Convert hexadecimal values to decimal in scripts to improve
clarity.
- Introduce shared functions to reduce redundancy and improve
script maintainability.
- Add more comments in generated code and simplify existing comments.
This commit refactors the icon and logo generation process by replacing
multiple dependencies with ImageMagick. This simplifies the build
process and enhances maintainability.
Key changes:
- Remove unnecessary icon files for macOS (.icns) and Linux
(size-specific PNGs). Electron-builder can now auto-generate these
from a single `logo.png` starting from version 19.54.0, see:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#1682
- electron-userland/electron-builder#2533
- Retain `ico` generation with multiple sizes to fix pixelated/bad
looking icons on Windows, see:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#7328
- electron-userland/electron-builder#3867
- Replaced `svgexport`, `icon-gen`, and `electron-icon-builder`
dependencies with ImageMagick, addressing issues with outdated
dependencies and unreliable CI/CD builds.
- Move electron-builder build resources to
`src/presentation/electron/build` for better project structure.
- Improve `electron-builder` configuration file by making it
importable/reusable without prebuilding the Electron application.
This commit updates the application startup behavior to prevent showing
a blank window until it's fully loaded on all platforms. This enhancement
improves the user experience by ensuring the UI only becomes visible
when it is ready to interact with.
This fix contributes to a smoother user experience by aligning the
window display timing with content readiness, thus avoiding the brief
display of an empty screen.
Changes:
- Set window to initially hide until fully loaded using the
`ready-to-show` event.
- Show the window, focus on it and bring it front once it is loaded.
Windows requires additional logic to put Window to front, see
electron/electron#2867.
- Parametrize the behavior of opening developer tools for easier
configuration during testing.
This commit modifies the blocking behavior of `r.bing.com` due to its
extensive use across multiple Windows features, including Copilot and
Maps. Previously, included in the 'Cortana and Live Tiles' block list,
this host was causing issues for Copilot functionalites, as noted in
issue #329. By excluding `r.bing.com` from block list, this update aims
to prevent unintended disruptions without compromising the privacy gains
of other scripts.
Changes include:
- Exclude `r.bing.com` from the "Cortana and Live Tiles" block list.
- Improve documentation to clarify the role and exclusions.
- Improve documentation with consistent header for blocked hosts.
This commit groups scripts related to disabling protocols under same
category, streamlining the process for disabling protocols like NetBios,
SMBv1, and various TLS/SSL versions. It improves the documentation and
scripts of the related scripts.
Key changes:
- Introduce new category for disabling insecure protocols and move
related scripts under it.
- Remove .NET configuration from TLS 1.0 disabling to prevent unwanted
side effects on .NET applications, maintaining system integrity.
- Remove the script disabling DTLS 1.1 as this protocol does not exist.
- Recommend previously not recommended scripts:
- SSL 2.0 in 'Standard' because it's already removed from Windows.
- SSL 3.0 in 'Standard' because it's already disabled by default.
- TLS 1.0 in 'Strict' as it's deprecated on Windows.
- TLS 1.1 in 'Strict' as it's deprecated on Windows.
- Rename and reorder scripts for consistency and enhanced readability.
- Fix revert codes to accurately reflect successful operations, by
adding `2>nul` on `reg delete` commands.
- Expand documentation to include detailed precautions and references,
aiding users in understanding the implications of their actions
(addressing user feedback from #57, #131, #183, #185).
Other supporting changes:
- Convert hexadecimal values to decimal to enhance script readability.
- Refactor scripts to utilize shared functions, improving maintainability.
- Add detailed comments within the scripts to aid in comprehension.
- Minor updates to other crypto scripts for consistency.
- Reorganize protocol listing by age for a logical script flow.
- Standardize comments across various TLS configuration scripts for
clarity.
- Fix enabling DTLS 1.3 being categorized as disabling insecure
connection.
This commit improves the management of script execution process by
enhancing the way terminal commands are handled, paving the way for
easier future modifications and providing clearer feedback to users when
scripts are cancelled.
Previously, the UI displayed a generic error message which could lead to
confusion if the user intentionally cancelled the script execution. Now,
a specific error dialog will appear, improving the user experience by
accurately reflecting the action taken by the user.
This change affects code execution on Linux where closing GNOME terminal
returns exit code `137` which is then treated by script cancellation by
privacy.sexy to show the accurate error dialog. It does not affect macOS
and Windows as curret commands result in success (`0`) exit code on
cancellation.
Additionally, this update encapsulates OS-specific logic into dedicated
classes, promoting better separation of concerns and increasing the
modularity of the codebase. This makes it simpler to maintain and extend
the application.
Key changes:
- Display a specific error message for script cancellations.
- Refactor command execution into dedicated classes.
- Improve file permission setting flexibility and avoid setting file
permissions on Windows as it's not required to execute files.
- Introduce more granular error types for script execution.
- Increase logging for shell commands to aid in debugging.
- Expand test coverage to ensure reliability.
- Fix error dialogs not showing the error messages due to incorrect
propagation of errors.
Other supported changes:
- Update `SECURITY.md` with details on script readback and verification.
- Fix a typo in `IpcRegistration.spec.ts`.
- Document antivirus scans in `desktop-vs-web-features.md`.
- Create system requirements documentation for desktop versions,
addressing issue #134.
- Reorganize related documents into `docs/desktop` for improved
structure and accessibility.
- Update references to address ARM chip emulation issues noted in user
feedback, issue #348.
This commit addresses reports in issue #131 about third-party cloud
services like MEGA and Dropbox being affected by hash disabling. It
updates the documentation to guide users on the potential impact,
adjusts the recommendation levels along with other minor improvements.
- Recommend hash disabling scripts in 'Strict'.
- Expand and refine documentation, adding warnings to inform user
decisions (addressing issues #57, #131, #175, #183).
- Add a new shared function to standardize hash disabling, increasing
code maintainability.
- Change from hexadecimal to decimal in scripts for clarity.
- Improve code comments for better understanding.
- Add comments in generated to code to make it easier to follow.
- Fix revert codes showing errors by using `2>nul` in `reg delete`
commands.
- Rename scripts for consistent naming conventions.
Supporting changes in other SSL/TLS handshake scripts:
- Update documentation for consistency.
- Rename shared functions for consistency and clarity.
- Improve generated code comments for clarity.
This commit integrates `pylint` into the CI/CD pipeline to improve the
quality of Python scripts within the project. By enforcing stricter
linting standards, the aim is to identify and correct potential issues
more efficiently, ultimately contributing to more reliable and
maintainable code.
Changes:
- Introduce `npm run lint:pylint` command to facilitate unified way to
run linting on different environments.
- Include `npm run lint:pylint` in the CI/CD workflow to ensure all
commits adhere to established Python coding standards.
- Fix an issue identified by `pylint` in `configure_vscode.py`.
- Rename the workflow to match the latest naming convention.
Due to changes in how Windows handles the Snipping Tool, this commit
reclassifies the tool's disablement into its own distinct category.
This update introduces alternative methods to disable the tool,
enhances documentation, and improves script functionality.
Changes include:
- Move Snipping Tool removal to a standalone category for clearer
navigation.
- Expand documentation to better describe the tool's impact on privacy.
- Add methods to disable the tool without removing the app.
- Implement a shared function to disable specific Windows hotkeys.
- Rename Cortana shortcut disablement script for consistency.
This commit introduces a new GitHub Actions job within the quality
checks workflow that scans the latest commit for TODO comments. The
intention is to prevent such comments from being merged into the main
branch, promoting cleaner and more maintainable code.
The script uses a specific pattern to avoid IDE detection and
misclassification of the script line as a TODO item itself. If any TODO
comments are found, the script exists with a non-zero status,
indicating an issue that must be addressed before proceeding.
- Introduce 'Disable insecure ciphers' category to organize and group
cipher disabling scripts.
- Expand documentation, adding cautionary notes to help users make
informed decisions, addressing issues #57, #131, #175, and #183.
- Implement `DisableCipherAlgorithm` function to standardize the
approach to disabling cipher algorithms, enhancing maintainability
and promoting code reuse.
- Replace hexadecimal numbers with decimals in scripts to improve
readability.
- Add comments to generated code for better understandability.
- Update revert codes to avoid incorrect error messages when
operations are successful, using `2>nul` in `reg delete` commands.
- Rename scripts for consistency, incorporating 'insecure' in titles.
- Adjust recommendations to disable all insecure ciphers in 'Strict'
mode due to security risks, and recommend disabling `NULL` in
'Standard' mode as it removes encryption.
- Remove disabling of `DES 56`, correcting a redundancy as this cipher
configuration does not exist.
This commit improves script clarity and user guidance on disabling
insecure renegotiations.
- Update script name for clarity.
- Improve documentation for better understanding.
- Recommend the script as 'Strict' to align with its security focus.
- Modify revert codes to suppress misleading error messages upon
successful reversion by including `2>nul` in `reg delete` commands.
- Convert hexadecimal to decimal in registry commands to improve
readability.
Reorganize and document scripts for disabling network features,
enhancing their discoverability and manageability. This commit
categorizes scripts related to disabling insecure network connections,
improves documentation, and makes these scripts more accessible.
- Group scripts under `Disable insecure connections` category.
- Move SMBv1 and NetBios disablement scripts to this new category.
- Improve documentation, highlighting the security improvements
and potential compatibility issues with older systems.
Addresses issues #57, #115, #183, #175, and #185 by simplifying the
process of troubleshooting and reversing changes if necessary.
This commit addresses touch target size issues on mobile devices by
adjusting modal margins. The larger margin allows for easier interaction
for modal dialogs by tapping outside the modal area on smaller screens.
Key changes:
- Introduce 30px margin on larger screens and 20px on smaller devices
around modals, adhering to accessibility guidelines.
- Remove `max-height: 90vh;` in favor of consistent vertical margins,
centralizing the spacing control via the `margin` property.
- Remove `max-height: 90v;` used to display scroll-bars as the vertical
margin is now handled by `margin` property in single place.
This commit updates the project's npm dependencies to their
latest versions.
Updates to the following dependencies are on hold due to compatibility
issues:
- `@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin`:
- Blocked by `@vue/eslint-config-airbnb-with-typescript`
(vuejs/eslint-config-airbnb#63).
- `@typescript-eslint/parser`:
- Blocked by `@vue/eslint-config-airbnb-with-typescript`
(vuejs/eslint-config-airbnb#63).
- `@vue/eslint-config-typescript`:
- Blocked by `@vue/eslint-config-airbnb-with-typescript`
(vuejs/eslint-config-airbnb#63).
- `eslint`:
- Blocked by `@vue/eslint-config-airbnb-with-typescript`
(vuejs/eslint-config-airbnb#65).
- Blocked by `@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin` and
`@typescript-eslint/parser`
(typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint#8211).
These dependencies remain at their current major versions, and
their status is documented in the `package.json` to inform future
updates.
Other supporting changes:
- Moves `@types/markdown-it` to `devDependencies` which was incorrectly
included in `dependencies`.
- Fix error in `TreeView.spec` tests, revealed by the version bump.
- Update `markdown-it` import to match the new file.
This commit refines the reversion process for disabled services,
including handling cases where a service is missing, and enhances
documentation related to default service states. It corrects the
startup mode for the `gupdatem` service from 'Automatic' to 'Manual'.
Key changes:
- Add documentation on default service states and startup types.
- Introduce `ignoreMissingOnRevert` to skip errors when reverting
missing services, improving the user experience.
- Standardize script titles for consistency across service
disablement scripts.
- Correct the startup type for `gupdatem` to 'Manual', aligning
it with its actual default state.
Supporting changes:
- Update `DisableService` function to support `ignoreMissingOnRevert`,
allowing more flexibility in handling missing services on revert.
- Change `treatMissingStateAsOk` to `ignoreMissingOnRevert` for
clarity and consistency.
This commit improves UI consistency. It also improves maintainability by
removing "magic values" in favor of standardized spacing throughout the
application.
- Adjust spacing variables to match the convention.
- Add `_spacing.scss` to define a centralized set of spacing variables, both
absolute and relative, to standardize the spacing throughout the application.
This new approach ensures a consistent spacing logic across all components and
layouts, facilitating easier maintenance and scalability of the styling codebase.
- Update various SCSS styles to utilize the new spacing variables. This change
harmonizes the spacing across different parts of the application, aligning with
the new design system's principles.
- Slightly adjust existing padding/margin/gaps for better consistency.
Other supporting changes per component:
- RatingCircle: Update style names to match convention and simplify
hacky way to inject circle width value through CSS variables. Add
tests for the new behavior and refactor existing tests for easier
extensibility.
- TheFooter: Add small gap when footer items wrap.
- HiearchicalTreeNode: Refactor variables to separate caret size clearly
from padding applied.
- App: Make padding responsive as initial behavior of v0.13.0 before
5d940b57ef.
- ModalDialog: Use responsive absolute values instead of percentage.
- HorizontalResizeSlider:
- Use `v-bind` instead of hacky way to inject SCSS values through variables.
- Remove `verticalMargin` property to simplify its styling.
- Move `src/presentation/assets/styles/components/_card.scss` closer to
components that it styles. Update structure documentation.
The centralization of spacing definitions will aid in future design
adjustments, ensuring that updates to spacing can be made swiftly and
uniformly across the application. It's a step towards a more maintainable
and scalable frontend architecture.
This commit enhances the documentation related to disabling the firewall
services in Windows, with a focus on the `winget` CLI's functionality,
resolving #142.
Changes:
- Expand documentation to include implications on `winget` CLI,
addressing the issue #142.
- Add documentation for disabling `mpsdrv` service.
- Align documentation for disabling `mpssvc` service to match updates
made for `mpsrv` to maintain consistency across documentation.
- Introduce documentation for parent categories affected by scripts
that disable these services.
- Add documentation for parent categories for disabling these firewall
services.
The documentation aims to provide users with a comprehensive
understanding of how these changes affect both system performance and
security posture.
This commit improves the IntelliCode privacy settings for Visual Studio
by adjusting registry entries to prevent data collection without
impacting IntelliCode's functionality.
- Fix registry value setting for `DisableRemoteAnalysis` to prevent
unexpected hangs in Visual Studio.
This resolves issues reported in #267 and #268.
- Change the script recommentation level to 'Standard', and remove
previous warnings about potential hangups, based on the successful
mitigation of these issues.
This reverts 7f7a84e3ba.
- Incorporate feedback from an official Microsoft statement
(MicrosoftDocs/intellicode#510), acknowledging the discontinuation of
certain IntelliCode backend services. This renders the remote analysis
feature obsolete.
- Revise the documentation to make it more accessible and easier to
understand.
On very small screens (that can be tested with iPhone SE size), the
`All` button overflows. This makes E2E tests fail with width like
`320px`.
This commit fixes the issue by removing `whitespace: no-break` but
employing simpler and self-documenting layout.
Key changes:
- Simplify scripts menu layout instead of relying on
`white-space: nowrap`.
- Increase gap when script menu items starts wrapping to avoid
"squeezed" look.
Other supporting changes:
- Simplify gaps by using `column-gap` and `row-gap` properties rather
than calculating margins.
- Use class-based styling instead of using `id`.
- Use more clear, consistent CSS class naming with prefixes in
`TheScriptsMenu` to improve maintainability.
- Introduce `center-middle-flex-item` mixin for better documenting the
code.
- Migrate feature disablement to PowerShell for clarity and robustness.
- Improve log outputs and error handling for missing or default-disabled
features. This fixes false-positive errors by treating the absence of
a targeted feature as a success condition, and treats features
disabled by the OS as non-issues.
- Fix revert logic to align with OS defaults, correcting previous
behavior that indiscriminately enabled features without considering
their default state.
- Fix usage of incorrect feature name for `LDPPrintService`, correcting
attempts to disable a non-existing feature.
- Standardize script recommendations for outdated or missing features
on modern Windows versions by recommending them on 'Standard'
selection, providing clearer guidance for users.
- Rename feature-related scripts for consistency with Windows display
names, improving consistency and script discoverability.
- Expand documentation for all feature-disabling scripts, adding
details such as display names, descriptions, and default states,
thereby informing users about the specifics and rationale of each
script.
- Rename `DisableFeature` function to `DisableWindowsFeature` for
increased descriptiveness and alignment with PowerShell conventions.
- Harmonize the use of the `DisableWindowsFeature` function across
scripts targeting various features, including SMBv1 and PowerShell
2.0 downgrade attacks, enhancing consistency and maintainability.
- Add code comments in the generated disable/enable feature scripts,
improving understandability for users.
- Add the ability to revert to default OS behavior for feature
enablement/disablement to align with OS defaults.
This commit fixes an UI inconsitency where the arrow did not animate in
sync with with the card's expansion panel during the expansion process.
The solution implemented involves the use of actual DOM element for the
arrow, rather than a pseude-element, allowing for unified animation with
the expansion panel.
Changes:
- Extraction of the expansion arrow into its own Vue component,
`CardExpansionArrow`, improving maintainability and separation of
concerns.
- Transition to using a real DOM element for the expansion arrow, moving
away from the `&:before` pseudo-class. This leads to simpler codebase,
better separation of concerns and closer alignment with HTML
semantics.
- Consolidate secret key improvement scripts into a single category.
- Simplify script names to improve user understanding.
- Expand and refine documentation, adding cautionary notes for clarity
and helping users make informed decisions (addresses issues #57, #131,
#175, #183).
- Adjust recommendation levels for scripts to 'Standard' to reflect
their adoption in modern Windows and align with security standards:
- Set Diffie-Hellman key exchange minimum to 2048 bits, matching
modern Windows defaults
- Align RSA key size with Microsoft's upcoming deprecation of 1024-bit
keys.
- Improve the revert process by suppressing false error messages using
`2>nul` in `reg delete` commands.
- Introduce a unified approach to adjust key sizes in key exchange
algorithms with `RequireMinimumKeySize` function.
- Modify the Diffie-Hellman key exchange to a 2048-bit minimum instead
of 4096 bits to balance security with broader software compatibility.
This attempts to reduce side-effects on third-party software as
reported in #57, #131, #183).
- Replace hexadecimal values with decimal equivalents in registry edits
to facilitate better maintainability and readability.
This commit addresses false negative failures in Cypress due to a known
Chrome issue.
The included change prevents Cypress tests from failing because of the
non-critical `ResizeObserver loop limit exceeded` error, which occurs
inconsistently during CI/CD runs with GitHub runners. This error has
been documented in CHrome and does not affect actual browser usage or
local test runs. This commit implements a widely recommended workaround
that ignores this specific error during test execution.
Error from Cypress:
```
Error: The following error originated from your application code, not from Cypress.
> ResizeObserver loop limit exceeded
```
The solution follows community-driven advice and past discussions on
handling this benign exception within test scenarios. It contributes to
more reliable CI/CD results by filtering out irrelevant error noise.
For detailed background and discussion on this error, see:
- Cypress issues: cypress-io/cypress#8418, cypress-io/cypress#20341
- Cypress PRs: cypress-io/cypress#20257, cypress-io/cypress#20284
- Discussion in Quasar: quasarframework/quasar#2233
- Discussion in specification repository: WICG/resize-observer#38
This commit fixes an issue where the card's header would improperly
expand to full height during card collapse, leading to a less smooth
user experience. Previously, this was caused by the indiscriminate use
of `transition: all` in the `.card__expander`, which included unwanted
properties in the transition during collapse, such as height. This is
solved by using Vue transitions to apply transition only during
expansion.
Changes:
- Introduce a new Vue component, `CardExpandAnimation`:
- Centralizes the animation process, applying the same animation to
both the card and its arrow for consistency.
- Resolves the glitch by adjusting classes exclusively during the
enter animation phase, avoiding unintended side effects during leave
animation phase.
- Adopts a Vue-idiomatic approach for transition management, improving
code readability and maintainability.
- Improves separation of concerns by isolating animation logic from
the component's core functionality, facilitating easier updates or
replacements.
- Remove unnecessary transitions to enhance code simplicity and
performance:
- Remove `transition: all` on `.card__expander`, which was identified
as the cause of the issue.
- Remove unnecessary `transition: all` on `.card`.
- Adjust transitions to specifically target and affect the transform
property (instead of `all`) to optimize animation behavior and
eliminate potential side-effects.
These changes not only fix the issue at hand but also contribute to a
more maintainable and performant codebase by clarifying animation logic
and reducing unnecessary CSS transitions.
This commit resolves an issue causing horizontal UI layout shift when a
script is selected for the first time, and when all selected scripts are
deselected. This issue was only observed on Chromium-based browsers on
Linux environment when using macOS and Windows script collections.
The underlying cause was identified as the use of percentage-based
values for CSS margin and padding. To resolve this issue, these values
were updated to absolute measurements. This adjustment maintains layout
consistency across user interactions without compromising the
responsiveness.
The underlying cause was identified as the use of percentage-based values
for CSS margin and padding within certain elements. To resolve this issue,
these values were updated to absolute measurements. This adjustment
maintains layout consistency across user interactions without compromising
the responsiveness of the application.
Additionally, an end-to-end (E2E) test has been introduced to monitor
for future regressions of this layout shift bug, ensuring that the fix
remains effective over subsequent updates.
This commit addresses a UI issue observed on small screens, particularly
during text searches involving nested nodes.
Implementing word-breaking for the improved display of script/category
titles and their documentation prevents content overflow. This change
ensures that both the header (including the node title and documentation
icon) and the documentation text stay fully visible without overflowing.
Additionally, this fix replaces ID-based styling (`#node`) with
class-based styling, using clear, descriptive names. This enhances CSS
and JavaScript reusability and maintainability.
Key changes:
- Run URL checks more frequently on every change.
- Introduce environment variable to randomly select and limit URLs
tested, this way the tests will provide quicker feedback on code
changes.
Other supporting changes:
- Log more information about test before running the test to enable
easier troubleshooting.
- Move shuffle function for arrays for reusability and missing tests.
This commit upgrades Node.js version to v20.x in CI/CD environment.
Previously used Node 18.x is moving towards end-of-life, with a planned
date of 2025-04-30. In contrast, Node 20.x has been offering long-term
support (LTS) since 2023-10-24. This makes Node 20.x a stable and
recommended version for production environments.
This commit also configures `actions/setup-node` with the
`check-latest` flag to always use the latest Node 20.x version, keeping
CI/CD setup up-to-date with minimal maintenance.
Details:
- actions/setup-node#165
- actions/setup-node#160
Using Node 20.x in CI/CD environments provides better compatibility with
Electron v29.0 which moves to Node 20.x.
Details:
- electron/electron#40343
This upgrade improves network connection handling in CI/CD pipelines
(where issues occur due to GitHub runners not supporting IPv6).
Details:
- actions/runner#3138
- actions/runner-images#668
- actions/runner#3213
- actions/runner-images#9540
Node 20.x adopts the Happy Eyeballs algorithm for improved IPv6
connectivity.
- nodejs/node#40702
- nodejs/node#41625
- nodejs/node#44731
This mitigates issues like `UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT` and localhost DNS
resolution in CI/CD environments:
Details:
- nodejs/node#40537
- actions/runner#3213
- actions/runner-images#9540
Node 20 introduces `setDefaultAutoSelectFamily`, a global function from
Node 19.4.0, enabling better IPv4 support, especially in environments
with limited or problematic IPv6 support.
Details:
- nodejs/node#45777
Node 20.x defaults to the new `autoSelectFamily`, improving network
connection reliability in GitHub runners lacking full IPv6 support.
Details:
- nodejs/node#46790
This commit introduces the `force-ipv4` GitHub action to address
connectivity issues caused by the lack of IPv6 support in GitHub
runners. Details:
- actions/runner#3138
- actions/runner-images#668
This change solves connection problems when Node's `fetch` API fails due
to `UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT` errors. Details:
- actions/runner-images#9540
- actions/runner#3213
This action disables IPv6 at the system level, ensuring all outging
requests use IPv4. Resolving connectivity issues when running external
URL checks and Docker build checks.
This solution is a temporary workaround until GitHub runners support
IPv6 or Node `fetch` API has a working solution such as Happy Eyeball.
Detais:
- nodejs/node#41625
- nodejs/undici#1531
This commit addresses intermittent failures in macOS Docker builds
within the GitHub Actions environment, attributed to slow agent
responses. By adjusting the retry logic, it aims to reduce build
failures caused by delayed Docker service readiness.
The enhancements increase the robustness and clarity of the build
process, especially for macOS, while maintaining functionality across
other operating systems.
Key changes:
- Increase max retries for the server check script from 30 to 90 for
macOS, accommodating slower startup times.
- Refine retry logic to prevent unnecessary retries after receiving a
definitive HTTP status code, enabling faster feedback and efficient
failure handling.
Other supporting changes:
- Introduce a `--max-retries` parameter in the server status check
script for dynamic adjustment based on the operating system.
- Add emojis to log messages to enhance the visibility of request
attempts in logs.
- Shift from `http.get` to the `fetch` API for server status checks,
utilizing its modern syntax, standardization, enriched feature set,
and better error handling.
- Standardize error output to `stderr`.
- Add a Node.js shebang in the server check script to improve usability.
This commit fixes an unintended bottom gap in the card expansional
panel, observed in the Windows script collection's "Advanced settings".
This issue arrives from a `min-height` CSS property that no longer
aligns with the current method for achieving balanced padding. It's only
visible when an action (a card) contains too few scripts (nodes).
This commit improves Windows scripts related to phone apps, extending
documentation, renaming scripts for clarity, removing unnecessary
scripts and adjusting recommendation levels.
Changes:
- Add script to disable the 'Call' system app, identified as missing in
issue #279.
- Update documentation for each phone-related app to include
descriptions and cautionary advice, focusing on privacy and
system performance benefits.
- Rename scripts for better alignment with actual app names and to
correct misconceptions:
- 'Communications - Phone' to 'Microsoft Phone'
- 'Your Phone Companion' to 'Your Phone'
- Remove the script for deleting `Microsoft.Windows.Phone` package,
correcting a community misreport.
- Adjust recommendations to remove Phone-related apps, considering their
limited necessity for OS functionality and common software use.
This commit fixes dead URLs and updates documentation references,
improving accuracy and reliability.
Key changes:
- Fix dead URLs by using archived snapshots when they are detected as
down by tests.
- Update URLs to their new redirected locations.
Other supporting changes:
- Introduce long URLs for `archive.ph` links to retain the original
URLs within the documentation. It simplifies the maintenance by
removing the need to document the original locations along with the
short URLs.
- Improve some of the documentation to use more current sources,
replacing the outdated ones.
This commit addresses a regression from refactoring in #215.
It restores YAML escape mechanism with quoting around 'manual' in the
`powerShellValue` attribute to ensure PowerShell interprets the value
correctly.
This change is documented with a comment to avoid future omissions.
This reverts commit c27172c32e.
This commit fixes inconsistent tooltip styling by setting the font
explicitly on the tooltip container to ensure uniform tooltip fonts.
As tooltip is rendered inside the parent elements' DOM, styling parent
element's font was also styling the font's font due to style
propogation, but setting fonts explicitly on tooltip ensure this does
not happen.
This commit bumps Electron and related dependencies to their latest
versions to leverage native ESM support. It adjusts build configuration
to use native ESM support instead of relying on CommonJS bundling.
Key changes:
- Bump Electron to latest v29.
Electron v28 ships with native ESM/ECMAScript modules support.
Details on Electron ESM support:
- electron/electron#21457
- electron/electron#37535
- Bump `electron-builder` to latest v24.13.
`electron-builder` is used to package and publish the application.
It supports ESM since 24.10.
Details on `electron-builder` ESM support:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#7936
- electron-userland/electron-builder#7935
- Bump `electron-log` to latest v5.1.
`electron-log` supports ESM since version 5.0.4.
Details on `electron-log` ESM support:
- megahertz/electron-log#390.
- Change `electron-vite` configuration to bundle as ESM instead of
CommonJS to leverage Electron's native ESM support.
Other supporting changes:
- Add type hint for electron-builder configuration file.
- Update import statements for `electron-updater` as it still is a
CommonJS module and does not support ESM.
Details:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#7976
- Improve `electron-builder` configuration file to dynamically locate
main entry files, supporting various JavaScript file extensions
(`.js`, `.mjs` and `.cjs`) to facilitate easier future changes.
- Change comment about Electron process-specific module alias
registration. This issue has been fixed in `electron-vite`, but
subpath module imports for Electron still do not work when building
tests (`npm run test:unit`).
Details:
- alex8088/electron-vite#372
- Add `electron-log` in bundling process instead of externalizing to
workaround Electron ESM loader issues with subpath imports (inability
to do `electron-log/main`).
Details:
- alex8088/electron-vite#401
- electron/electron#41241
- Improve desktop runtime error checks' assertion message for better
clarity.
This commit improves the safety mechanisms in the script for deleting
OneDrive user data on Windows.
Key changes:
- System Integrity Protection: The script now checks if user shell
folders point to the OneDrive directory. If they do, it halts the
deletion and provides guidance to the user. This ensures system
stability is not compromised.
- Data Loss Prevention: The script will no longer delete files or
non-empty folders. This precaution helps to avoid unintended data
loss.
Other supporting changes:
- This script now covers OneDrive folders for multi-account users.
- Separation of concerns: The 'Remove OneDrive residual files' script is
is divided into two distinct scripts for better maintainability and
documentation clarity:
1. 'Remove OneDrive user data and synced folders'
2. 'Remove OneDrive installation files and cache'
- Fix an issue with the Windows 11 check in the 'Disable automatic
OneDrive installation' revert script.
- Update related documentation with archived URLs for reliability.
- Fix indentation of OneDrive removal scripts.
This commit improves the URL health checking mechanism to reduce false
negatives.
- Treat all 2XX status codes as successful, addressing issues with codes
like `204`.
- Improve URL matching to exclude URLs within Markdown inline code block
and support URLs containing parentheses.
- Add `forceHttpGetForUrlPatterns` to customize HTTP method per URL to
allow verifying URLs behind CDN/WAFs that do not respond to HTTP HEAD.
- Send the Host header for improved handling of webpages behind proxies.
- Improve formatting and context for output messages.
- Fix the defaulting options for redirects and cookie handling.
- Update the user agent pool to modern browsers and platforms.
- Add support for randomizing TLS fingerprint to mimic various clients
better, improving the effectiveness of checks. However, this is not
fully supported by Node.js's HTTP client; see nodejs/undici#1983 for
more details.
- Use `AbortSignal` instead of `AbortController` as more modern and
simpler way to handle timeouts.
This commit upgrades the `vitest` library to its first major version
(v1) resolving issues with previously unexecuted tests due to improperly
nested `it` blocks.
The migration to v1 uncovered error messages indicating the misuse of
`it` blocks, as described in vitest-dev/vitest#4229 and
vitest-dev/vitest#4262, prompting a restructuring of test cases for
proper execution.
Additionally, this commit adjusts singleton test definitions in
`DependencyProvider.spec.ts` to better reflect real usage scenarios and
correctly implement singleton pattern tests, enhancing test reliability.
Changes:
- Upgrade `vitest` from v0 to v1.
- Correct test definitions by organizing `it` blocks within `describe`
blocks.
- Fix singleton test definition in `DependencyProvider.spec.ts`.
This commit introduces a more structured approach to starting, stopping,
and managing Windows services. By abstracting service control operations
into dedicated functions (`StopService`, `StartService`, etc.), it
improves code readability and facilitates future maintenance.
The modifications include:
- Creation of files (`%APPDIR%`\privacy.sexy-<serviceName>`) for
managing service restart states. This approach simplifies the process
of determining whether a service was running before the script
executed and should therefore be restarted afterward.
- Using `DeleteFiles` and `ClearDirectoryContents` functions to safely
remove files without affecting service operations. This is enabled by
using shared funtions for service operations.
This commit updates the `vite` dependency to the latest version (5.1.X)
and makes necessary adjustments to accommodate deprecations and new
features introduced in Vite 5.1.X.
Changes include:
- Modify the import statement for SVG files to use `query: '?raw'` syntax
due to the deprecation of the `as: raw` option.
- Update `moduleResolution` setting to `Bundler` in `tsconfig.json` to
support the new TypeScript 5 option, aligning with Vite 5's migration
guide for Rollup 4 compatibility without requiring file extensions on
relative imports.
Plugin migrations for Vite 5 support:
- Bump `@modyfi/vite-plugin-yaml`, see @modyfi/vite-plugin-yaml#22.
- Bump `electron-vite`, see alex8088/electron-vite#335.
- Bump `vitejs/plugin-legacy`.
- Bump `vitejs/vite-plugin-vue`, see vitejs/vite-plugin-vue#290.
This commit upgrades TypeScript to the latest version 5.3 and introduces
`verbatimModuleSyntax` in line with the official Vue guide
recommendatinos (vuejs/docs#2592).
By enforcing `import type` for type-only imports, this commit improves
code clarity and supports tooling optimization, ensuring imports are
only bundled when necessary for runtime.
Changes:
- Bump TypeScript to 5.3.3 across the project.
- Adjust import statements to utilize `import type` where applicable,
promoting cleaner and more efficient code.
This commit improves the reliability of the `configure_vscode.py` script
on macOS by improving the detection mechanism for the Visual Studio Code
CLI command (`code`). It introduces a fallback mechanism to locate the
`code` executable in common installation path for macOS, addressing the
issue where the VSCode CLI might not be found in PATH variable.
Additionally, the commit refines error handling by providing clearer error
messages for unknown exceptions during the extension installation process.
This ensures that users are better informed about the nature of the error,
facilitating easier troubleshooting.
This commit ensures that the tooltip maintains its `z-index` during both
visibility and invisibility transitions. This prevents the tooltip from
falling behind other elements during its fade-in and fade-out
animations, providing smoother and more visually consistent user
experience.
By explicitly setting the shell to bash in GitHub actions workflow, this
commit fixes the failure of automated releases on Windows. Previously,
the default PowerShell environment on Windows runners led to syntax
incompatibilities, causing the release process to fail with an error
when executing git checkout commands.
This changes allows successful application publishing on Windows by
avoiding syntax issues due to PowerShell interpreting commands
differently, fixing the following error encountered:
```
Run git checkout "$(git rev-list "0.13.0"..master | tail -1)"
git checkout "$(git rev-list "0.13.0"..master | tail -1)"
shell: C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.EXE -command ". '{0}'"
fatal: empty string is not a valid pathspec. please use . instead if you meant to match all paths
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
```
This commit changes outdated meta description which suggested
privacy.sexy is only for Windows.
It also changes title to use `Maximize your privacy` instead of using
the word "enforce".
- Introduce new category for host blocking.
- Add new scripts to block tracking hosts Windows connects to.
- Relocate Dropbox host blocking under new category.
- Update comments in `BlockViaHostsFile` function for clarity.
This commit improves the organization of service disabling scripts by
relocating the "Disable OS services" section. It improves documentation
and script/category titles to enhance clarity and accessibility for the
divers user base of privacy.sexy, including those with non-technical
backgrounds.
Key changes:
- Move "Disable OS services" to "Remove bloatware" to simplify
navigation and prepare for new categories (for #26).
- Rename "Disable OS services" to "Disable non-essential services"
for better understanding.
- Relocate "Disable NetBios for all interfaces" to "Security
improvements" due to its relevance to security rather than bloatware.
- Improve documentation.
- Simplify script names by removing technical jargon, making them more
more accessible.
This commit improves the user experience by adding smooth transitions
for expanding and collapsing tree node items and documentation sections.
The introduction of these animations makes the interface feel more
dynamic and responsive to user interactions.
Key changes:
- Implement a new `ExpandCollapseTransition` component to wrap UI
elements requiring expand/collapse animations.
- Utiliz the `ExpandCollapseTransition` in tree view nodes and
documentation sections to animate visibility changes.
- Refactor CSS to remove obsolete transition mixins, leveraging Vue's
transition system for consistency and maintainability.
This commit centralizes the styling of key UI elements across the
project to ensure:
- Consistent look and feel.
- Enhanced code reusability.
- Simpified maintenance, improving development speed.
It establishes a uniform foundation that can be leveraged across
different parts of the project, even enabling the styling to be shared
across different websites (supporting issue #49).
Key changes:
- Apply the following shared styles globally:
* Styling of code, blockquotes, superscripts, horizontal rules and
anchors.
* Vertical and horizontal spacing.
- Segregate base styling into dedicated SCSS files for clearer structure
and increased maintainability.
- Remove custom styling from affected components, enabling global style
reuse for visual uniformity, reduced redundancy, and enhanced
semantics.
Other supporting changes:
- Rename `globals.scss` to `base.scss` for better clarity.
- Add `.editorconfig` for `.scss` files to ensure consistent whitespace
usage.
- Remove `2` file from the project root, that was included in the source
code by mistake.
- Remove unused font-face imports
Key changes:
- Change main font to Roboto Slab for enhanced readability.
- Change code font to 'Source Code Pro' for consistent monospace code
rendering.
- Import and set code font explicitly for uniform appearance across
platforms.
- Update Slabo 27px (logo font) version from v6 to v14.
- Update Yesteryear (cursive font) version from v8 to v18.
- Drop support for historic browser-specific formats, retaining only
WOFF2 for modern and TTF for legacy browsers.
- Use `font-display: swap` to improve perceived load times and minimize
layout shifts.
Supporting changes:
- Simplify font-weight usage to 'normal' and 'bold' for consistency.
- Adjust inline code padding for better scalability and prevent
overflow.
- Introduce `$font-main` as main font variable.
- Remove specification of main font as it's best practice to rely on the
default font defined on `body` style.
- Specify font in code area to ensure it uses the code font consistently
as the rest of the application.
- Remove local font search through `local` to simplify the import logic
and prioritize consistency over performance.
- Import bold font explicitly (`font-weight: 700`) for smooth and
consistent rendering.
- Move `font-family` definitions to `_typography.scss` to better adhere
to the common standards and conventions.
- Refactor font variables to have `font-family-` prefix instead of
`font-` to improve clarity and differentiation between `font-size`
variables.
- Rename 'artistic' font to 'cursive' for preciseness and clarity.
- Use smaller font sizes to match the new main font size, as Roboto Slab
is relatively larger.
- Add missing fallbacks for serif fonts to improve fault tolerance.
- Change padding slightly on toggle switch for revert buttons to align
well with new main font and its sizing.
Since the 0.12.0 release, Linux support has undergone extensive testing
and all reported issues have been addressed. This change removes the
'preview' label from all UI elements related to Linux, signifying that
Linux support is mature and fully integrated.
- The 'preview' text next to Linux in the operating system selection
and other related UI elements has been omitted.
- Users can now select Linux without the implication of it being an
experimental feature, encouraging trust and wider adoption.
This commit broadens the search functionality within privacy.sexy by
including documentation text in the search scope. Users can now find
scripts and categories not only by their names but also by content in
their documentation. This improvement aims to make the discovery of
relevant scripts and information more intuitive and comprehensive.
Key changes:
- Documentation text is now searchable, enhancing the ability to
discover scripts and categories based on content details.
Other supporting changes:
- Remove interface prefixes (`I`) from related interfaces to adhere to
naming conventions, enhancing code readability.
- Refactor filtering to separate actual filtering logic from filter
state management, improving the structure for easier maintenance.
- Improve test coverage to ensure relability of existing and new search
capabilities.
- Test coverage expanded to ensure the reliability of the new search
capabilities.
Introduce scripts across Windows, macOS and Linux to allow privacy.sexy
users to erase their script usage traces, improving privacy protection.
Key changes:
- Add category to clear privacy.sexy data.
- Add scripts for deleting privacy.sexy's script execution history and
activity logs.
Supporting changes:
- Update documentation to highlight the new capability for users to
clear privacy.sexy-generated data.
- Add shared functions for directory cleanup for Linux and macOS.
- Add code annotations to hint unified approach across all supported
operating systems.
This commit introduces 'Revert: None - Selected' toggle, enabling users
to revert all reversible scripts with a single action, improving user
safety and control over script effects.
This feature addresses user-reported concerns about the ease of
reverting script changes. This feature should enhance the user experience
by streamlining the revert process along with providing essential
information about script reversibility.
Key changes:
- Add buttons to revert all selected scripts or setting all selected
scripts to non-revert state.
- Add tooltips with detailed explanations about consequences of
modifying revert states, includinginformation about irreversible
script changes.
Supporting changes:
- Align items on top menu vertically for better visual consistency.
- Rename `SelectionType` to `RecommendationStatusType` for more clarity.
- Rename `IReverter` to `Reverter` to move away from `I` prefix
convention.
- The `.script` CSS class was duplicated in `TheScriptsView.vue` and
`TheScriptsArea.vue`, leading to style collisions in the development
environment. The class has been renamed to component-specific classes
to avoid such issues in the future.
The project's slagon has been updated back to "Privacy is sexy" from
"Now you have the choice" for enhanced brand clarity and memorability.
This change also reflects the community's preference and aligns with the
project's established identity.
This commit also refactors naming and structure of project information
(metadata) struct to enhance clarity and maintainability in relation to
changing the slogan.
Key changes include:
- Update UI components to display the revised slogan.
- Remove period from project slogan in code area for consistency with a
explanatory comment for future maintainability.
- Refactor header container and class names for clarity.
- Standardize project metadata usage in `TheCodeArea.vue` to ensure
consistency.
- Improve code clarity by renaming `IProjectInformation` to
`ProjectDetails` and `ProjectInformation` to `GitHubProjectDetails`.
- Organize `ProjectDetails` under a dedicated `Project` directory within
the domain layer for better structure.
These changes are expected to improve the project's appeal and
streamline future maintenance and development efforts.
This commit improves markdown rendering to convert reference labels
(e.g., `[1]`) to superscripts, improving document readability without
cluttering the text. This improvement applies documentation of all
scripts and categories.
Changes:
- Implement superscript conversion for reference labels within markdown
content, ensuring a cleaner presentation of textual references.
- Enable HTML content within markdown, necessary for inserting `<sup>`
elements due to limitations in `markdown-it`, see
markdown-it/markdown-it#999 for details.
- Refactor markdown rendering process for improved testability and
adherence to the Single Responsibility Principle.
- Create `_typography.scss` with font size definitions, facilitating
better control over text presentation.
- Adjust external URL indicator icon sizing for consistency, aligning
images with the top of the text to maintain a uniform appearence.
- Use normal font-size explicitly for documentation text to ensure
consistency.
- Remove text size specification in `markdown-styles` mixin, using `1em`
for spacing to simplify styling.
- Rename font sizing variables for clarity, distinguishing between
absolute and relative units.
- Change `font-size-relative-smaller` to be `80%`, browser default for
`font-size: smaller;` CSS style and use it with `<sup>` elements.
- Improve the logic for converting plain URLs to hyperlinks, removing
trailing whitespace for cleaner link generation.
- Fix plain URL to hyperlink (autolinking) logic removing trailing
whitespace from the original markdown content. This was revealed by
tests after separating its logic.
- Increase test coverage with more tests.
- Add types for `markdown-it` through `@types/markdown-it` package for
better editor support and maintainability.
- Simplify implementation of adding custom anchor attributes in
`markdown-it` using latest documentation.
This commit standardizes the visual styling of inline code and code
blocks, ensuring consistency across macOS, Android, Linux and Windows
platforms.
The discrepancies observed in font rendering on macOS, which caused the
inline code font to appear larger, have been addressed. This behavior
was only observed on macOS using different browsers such as Firefox,
Safari, Chromium-based browsers including Electron.
Key changes:
- Standardize font size relative to the parent element.
- Remove font-weight for uniformity, especially when the specific weight
is not included with the application.
- Add a consistent background color to inline codes, aligning their look
with code blocks.
- Refactor code styling into a separate SCSS file for improved
modularity and maintainability.
- Update the documentation to reflect these visual design choices for
privacy.sexy's UI.
These changes enhance the overall user experience by providing a
consistent look and feel for code elements within the UI, regardless of
the user's platform or browser.
- Switch 'revert' button text to title case for consistency and more
formal and professional look.
- Update related styles to reflect the new case usage.
- Adjust tests to match the new button label casing.
- Remove reduntant visibility switch between to elements to simpify the
DOM and style rules.
This commit standardizes font sizes across components for a uniform
look. The icon sizes, font weights and line heights are also adjusted
accordingly for better standardization and simplicity.
- Introduce variables for standard font sizes, enhancing
maintainability.
- Remove explicit pixel values, replaced with scalable units based on
root size.
- Remove workaround for line-height adoptation of bigger font-size.
- Use consistent small font-size for the code area.
- Adjust checkbox tick to scale with font size.
Add markdown rendering for script and category titles to improve the
presentation of textual content.
- Introduce reusable `MarkdownText` for markdown rendering.
- Incorporate markdown styling into dedicated SCSS file for clarity.
- Define explicit font sizes for consistent visual experience.
- Apply `MarkdownText` usage across UI for unified markdown rendering.
- Streamline related styles and layout for improved maintainability
- Set font sizes explicitly for better consistency and to avoid
unexpected inheritence.
This enhancement enables richer text formatting and improves the user
interface's flexibility in displaying content.
Tooltip content now has a maximum width set to accommodate an optimal
character count per line, enhancing readability and interface
cleanliness.
This limit is grounded in typographic research suggesting that 50-75
characters per line is ideal for text readability, with tooltips being
targeted to the lower end of this spectrum to maintain brevity and
clarity.
This commit improves consistency in the UI by ensuring that all nodes in
the tree component expand to take full available width. This approach
eliminates layout shifts that were previously observed when toggling
documentation.
- Refine tooltip documentation with clearer information.
- Introduce privacy ranking indicator for intuitive user guidance.
- Adopt a consistent format throughout documentation.
- Switch from emojis to icons to maintain visual uniformity.
This commit implements scripts to disable Windows Copilot (Copilot in
Windows), addressing issues #263 and #266.
Changes include:
- Add category and scripts to disable Windows copilot.
- Incorporate a restart explorer suggestion across all taskbar
modification scripts to ensure consistency in user experience.
- Add disabling bing search suggestions, resolving #117.
- Fix revert codes to align with default OS configurations.
- Implement message for recommended explorer.exe restart.
- Simplify script names for ease of understanding.
- Provide detailed documentation for each script change.
- Correct `BingSearchEnabled` registry path from HKLM to HKCU.
- Improve categorization of search privacy scripts.
This commit adds scripts to secure clipboard by disabling clipboard
synchronization and history. These changes aim to prevent sensitive data
like passwords and credit card details from being inadvertently stored
or shared via the cloud.
- Include the script's directory path #304.
- Exclude Windows-specific instructions on non-Windows OS.
- Standardize language across dialogs for consistency.
Other supporting changes:
- Add script diagnostics data collection from main process.
- Document script file storage and execution tamper protection in
SECURITY.md.
- Remove redundant comment in `NodeReadbackFileWriter`.
- Centralize error display for uniformity and simplicity.
- Simpify `WindowVariablesValidator` to omit checks when not on the
renderer process.
- Improve and centralize Electron environment detection.
- Use more emphatic language (don't worry) in error messages.
This commit addresses issues #264 and #304, where users were not
receiving error messages when script execution failed due to
antivirus intervention, particularly with Microsoft Defender.
Now, desktop app users will see a detailed error message with
guidance on next steps if script saving or execution fails due
to antivirus removal.
Key changes:
- Implement a check to detect failure in file writing,
including reading the written file back. This method effectively
detects antivirus interventions, as the read operation triggers
an antivirus scan, leading to file deletion by the antivirus.
- Introduce a specific error message for scenarios where an
antivirus intervention is detected.
- Add Windows instruction dialog when saving scripts for Windows.
- Fix incorrect macOS download URL given for Linux instructions.
- Refactor UI rendering, eleminating the use of `v-html` and JavaScript
variables to hold HTML code.
This commit introduces system-native error dialogs on desktop
application for code save or execution failures, addressing user confusion
described in issue #264.
This commit adds informative feedback when script execution or saving
fails.
Changes:
- Implement support for system-native error dialogs.
- Refactor `CodeRunner` and `Dialog` interfaces and their
implementations to improve error handling and provide better type
safety.
- Introduce structured error handling, allowing UI to display detailed
error messages.
- Replace error throwing with an error object interface for controlled
handling. This ensures that errors are propagated to the renderer
process without being limited by Electron's error object
serialization limitations as detailed in electron/electron#24427.
- Add logging for dialog actions to aid in troubleshooting.
- Rename `fileName` to `defaultFilename` in `saveFile` functions
to clarify its purpose.
- Centralize message assertion in `LoggerStub` for consistency.
- Introduce `expectTrue` in tests for clearer boolean assertions.
- Standardize `filename` usage across the codebase.
- Enhance existing test names and organization for clarity.
- Update related documentation.
This commit introduces native operating system file dialogs in the
desktop application replacing the existing web-based dialogs.
It lays the foundation for future enhancements such as:
- Providing error messages when saving or executing files, addressing
#264.
- Creating system restore points, addressing #50.
Documentation updates:
- Update `desktop-vs-web-features.md` with added functionality.
- Update `README.md` with security feature highlights.
- Update home page documentation to emphasize security features.
Other supporting changes include:
- Integrate IPC communication channels for secure Electron dialog API
interactions.
- Refactor `IpcRegistration` for more type-safety and simplicity.
- Introduce a Vue hook to encapsulate dialog functionality.
- Improve errors during IPC registration for easier troubleshooting.
- Move `ClientLoggerFactory` for consistency in hooks organization and
remove `LoggerFactory` interface for simplicity.
- Add tests for the save file dialog in the browser context.
- Add `Blob` polyfill in tests to compensate for the missing
`blob.text()` function in `jsdom` (see jsdom/jsdom#2555).
Improve environment detection logic:
- Treat test environment as browser environments to correctly activate
features based on the environment. This resolves issues where the
environment is misidentified as desktop, but Electron preloader APIs
are missing.
- Rename `isDesktop` environment identification variable to
`isRunningAsDesktopApplication` for better clarity and to avoid
confusion with desktop environments in web/browser/test environments.
- Simplify `BrowserRuntimeEnvironment` to consistently detect
non-desktop application environments.
- Improve environment detection for Electron main process
(electron/electron#2288).
This commit adds missing extension apps seen since Windows 11 22H2 and
improves documentation scripts and category of extension app removal.
Addition of new extension apps found since Windows 11 22H2:
- HEVC Video Extensions (`Microsoft.HEVCVideoExtension`)
- Raw Image Extension (`Microsoft.RawImageExtension`)
Documentation improvements:
- Fix links that are not correctly archived.
- Add cautionary notes for all extension app removal scripts.
- Add security implications associated with these extensions.
This commit addresses an issue in the privacy.sexy desktop application
where scripts executed as administrator on Windows were running in the
background. This was observed in environments like Windows Pro VMs on
Azure, where operations typically run with administrative privileges.
Previously, the application used the `"$path"` shell command to execute
scripts. This mechanism failed to activate the logic for requesting
admin privileges if the app itself was running as an administrator.
To resolve this, the script execution process has been modified to
explicitly ask for administrator privileges using the `VerbAs` method.
This ensures that the script always runs in a new `cmd.exe` window,
enhancing visibility and user interaction.
Other supporting changes:
- Rename the generated script file from `run-{timestamp}-{extension}` er
to `{timestamp}-privacy-script-{extension}` for clearer identification
and better file sorting.
- Refactor `ScriptFileCreator` to parameterize file extension and
script name.
- Rename `OsTimestampedFilenameGenerator` to
`TimestampedFilenameGenerator` to better reflect its new and more
scoped functionality after refactoring mentioned abvoe.
- Remove `setAppName()` due to ineffective behavior in Windows.
- Update `SECURITY.md` to highlight that the app doesn't require admin
rights for standard operations.
- Add `.editorconfig` settings for PowerShell scripts.
- Add a integration test for script execution logic. Improve environment
detection for more reliable test execution.
- Disable application logging during unit/integration tests to keep test
outputs clean and focused.
This commit improves the horizontal slider between the generated code
area and the script list. It enhances interaction, accessibility and
performance. It provides missing touch responsiveness, improves
accessibility by using better HTML semantics, introduces throttling and
refactors cursor handling during drag operations with added tests.
These changes provides smoother user experience, better support for
touch devices, reduce load during interactions and ensure the
component's behavior is intuitive and accessible across different
devices and interactions.
- Fix horizontal slider not responding to touch events.
- Improve slider handle to be a `<button>` for improved accessibility
and native browser support, improving user interaction and keyboard
support.
- Add throttling in the slider for performance optimization, reducing
processing load during actions.
- Fix losing dragging state cursor on hover over page elements such as
input boxes and buttons during dragging.
- Separate dragging logic into its own compositional hook for clearer
separation of concerns.
- Refactor global cursor mutation process.
- Increase robustness in global cursor changes by preserving and
restoring previous cursor style to prevent potential side-effects.
- Use Vue 3.2 feature for defining cursor CSS style in `<style>`
section.
- Expand unit test coverage for horizontal slider, use MouseEvent and
type cast it to PointerEvent as MouseEvent is not yet supported by
`jsdom` (see jsdom/jsdom#2527).
This commit improves the VSCode configuration script for Linux-based
development environments.
It fixes a script execution failure in the deskto version during
development when using VSCode installed via Snap or Flatpak. It resolves
the following error encountered during script execution in development
mode (`npm run electron:dev`):
`symbol lookup error: /snap/core20/current/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0:
undefined symbol: __libc_pthread_init, version GLIBC_PRIVATE`
Changes:
- Add a setting in VSCode configuration script to workaround script
execution errors in sandboxed VSCode installations on Linux (see
see microsoft/vscode#179274).
- Migrate the configuration script to Python for cross-platform
compatibility and simplicity.
- Refactor the script for better extensibility.
- Automate installation of recommended VSCode extensions.
- Recommend VSCode Pylint extension for Python linting.
- Standardize Python development settings in `.editorconfig`.
This commit fixes an issue seen on certain Windows environments (Windows
10 22H2 and 11 23H2 Pro Azure VMs) where scripts were being deleted
during execution due to temporary directory usage. To resolve this,
scripts are now stored in a persistent directory, enhancing reliability
for long-running scripts and improving auditability along with
troubleshooting.
Key changes:
- Move script execution logic to the `main` process from `preloader` to
utilize Electron's `app.getPath`.
- Improve runtime environment detection for non-browser environments to
allow its usage in Electron main process.
- Introduce a secure module to expose IPC channels from the main process
to the renderer via the preloader process.
Supporting refactorings include:
- Simplify `CodeRunner` interface by removing the `tempScriptFolderName`
parameter.
- Rename `NodeSystemOperations` to `NodeElectronSystemOperations` as it
now wraps electron APIs too, and convert it to class for simplicity.
- Rename `TemporaryFileCodeRunner` to `ScriptFileCodeRunner` to reflect
its new functinoality.
- Rename `SystemOperations` folder to `System` for simplicity.
- Rename `HostRuntimeEnvironment` to `BrowserRuntimeEnvironment` for
clarity.
- Refactor main Electron process configuration to align with latest
Electron documentation/recommendations.
- Refactor unit tests `BrowserRuntimeEnvironment` to simplify singleton
workaround.
- Use alias imports like `electron/main` and `electron/common` for
better clarity.
- Bump all ESLint dependencies related to TypeScript to their latest
version. This was made possible by the resolution of compatibility
issues with `@vue/eslint-config-airbnb-with-typescript`.
See vuejs/eslint-config-airbnb#58 for details.
- Refactor code to comply with the latest linting configuration.
- Improve documentation in the ESLint configuration file to better
describe the functionality and limitations of
`@vue/typescript/recommended`.
See vuejs/eslint-config-typescript#67 for details.
- Document functionality and limitation of `@vue/typescript/recommended`
more clearly in ESLint configuration file.
This commit addresses an issue where macOS was incorrectly identified as
iPadOS in Chromium-based browsers. The root cause was related to touch
support detection being inaccurately triggered on Chromium browsers,
leading to misidentification.
The bug caused two issues:
1. Desktop version: Script execution on macOS did not work as the
desktop app wrongly assumed that it was running on iPadOS.
2. Web and desktop version: The UI didn't default to macOS, presuming an
iPadOS environment.
This bug was exclusive to Chromium browsers on macOS. Firefox and Safari
didn't exhibit this behavior, as they handle touch event browser API
as differently and initially expected.
Key changes:
- Improve touch support detection to accurately differentiate between
macOS and iPadOS by removing an identification method used that is not
reliable for Chromium-based browsers.
- Update user agent detection to correctly identify Electron-based
applications as macOS even without needing the information from the
preloader context.
This commit improves the handling of paths with spaces or special
characters during script execution in the desktop application.
Key improvements:
- Paths are now quoted for macOS/Linux, addressing issues with
whitespace or single quotes.
- Windows paths are enclosed in double quotes to handle special
characters.
Other supporting changes:
- Add more documentation for terminal execution commands.
- Refactor terminal script file execution into a dedicated file for
improved separation of concerns.
- Refactor naming of `RuntimeEnvironment` to align with naming
conventions (no interface with I prefix) and for clarity.
- Refactor `TemporaryFileCodeRunner` to simplify it by removing the `os`
parameter and handling OS-specific logic within the filename generator
instead.
- Refactor `fileName` to `filename` for consistency.
This commit improves documentation for removal of Windows store apps
along with adding related research.
1. Improve Store app removal documentation:
The documentation for scripts that remove Store apps has been
enhanced. It now includes information on the default preinstallation
status of these apps across various Windows versions. This update
covers Windows 10 (from version 19H2 to 23H2) and Windows 11 (from
version 21H2 to 23H2), enabling users to identify potentially
preinstalled apps that might affect privacy.
2. Add research documentation:
A detailed research documentation on Windows Store apps has been
introduced for Windows 10 (versions 1909 to 22H2) and Windows 11
(versions 21H2 to 23H2). This includes lists of preinstalled Store
apps, complete with package information. This research aids in
understanding which default apps are present in different Windows
versions and their status regarding removal. The documentation also
includes the PowerShell script used for this research, serving as a
resource for future updates and expansion.
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