Discussion form asks for settings which include potentially sensitive information

[realityexists]

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The "version and details" textbox below asks the user to click "Copy to clipboard" in the Settings dialog and paste the results, but the download_history part of that contains URLs and filename of videos the user has downloaded, which is potentially sensitive. At the very least, the user is likely to be unpleasantly surprised that they've posted in public the list of videos they've downloaded. It's quite easy to miss - many users will just see a big blob of JSON, starting with perfectly innocent-looking version information, and copy/paste it all without scrolling down.

Potentially sensitive information like this should not be included by default. If it's needed (and I would guess it's needed for very, very few help requests) there can be a separate option to copy it, with a clear warning to the user to check for potentially sensitive information they may want to remove.

Addon & CoApp version and details

version: 9.3.7.2
target: mozilla
channel: stable
lang: en-GB
coapp: {"found":true,"path":"C:\Program Files\DownloadHelper CoApp\vdhcoapp.exe","version":"2.0.19","new_version":false}
license: {"unset":true}
platform: x86-64 win
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
{
"privacy_accept": true,
"used_history_button": true,
"download_directory": "E:\Downloads",
"view_options": {
"all_tabs": false,
"low_quality": false,
"sort_by_status": true,
"sort_reverse": false,
"show_button_clean": true,
"show_button_clean_all": false,
"show_button_convert_local": false,
"hide_downloaded": false
},
"open_count_store": 4,
"successfull_dl": 24,
"download_history": (THIS RIGHT HERE),
"record_download_history": true
}

[jcfrog]

Hi,
You're right, the dev team will fix that.
Thanks for the feedback

[Mattmjs]

I think the template for creating a new discussion should be updated to include a check box that says
☐ I have removed download history from my addon and version details. The user has to tick the box before they proceed to submit
the discussion. What you've done is how it should be done, but some people don't. @jcfrog what do you think ?

[jcfrog]

I think this has to be removed, Paul will fix this by not copying history info when the button is pressed.
It is already a bit complicated for a lot of people to post here. The form is already a bit frightening :)

Meanwhile I will add a comment in the page explaining how to copy versions info.