Chrome Privacy Guard Args (CPGA)

The Chrome Privacy Guard (CPG) was, and is, a great idea - basically generating a new unique ID every time Chrome is started, to prevent consistent tracking of any one user’s browsing activities based on their ID alone.  There was, however, one small problem: it didn’t forward command line arguments.  Enter solution, stage left.

I’ve taken two minutes out of my day, and adapted the source (which is licensed under the GPLv3) to include command-line argument forwarding, adjusted the name (so it’s not confusing anything with the original author’s release), and compiled…   I know it’s hardly a spectacular achievement, but as it serves my purposes now, I thought I’d post it up here for the benefit of others.

To use, simply drop it somewhere on your system (I’ve used my default Chrome application folder), and point your shortcuts to the new exe.

All credit should go to the original author, Sebastian Bauer, for the idea to fiddle with in the first place.  Grab the binary and source below.

Last Updated: 12th December 2008 @ 00:02 GMT
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Design Dilemmas

I’m going to make my apologies up-front here, and say that this post is not informative, nor is it thought-provoking.  Whilst you’re welcome to read my ramblings, if you’re a designer, I’d especially appreciate if you continued reading!

With that out of the way, I’ll say that there are a number of things that frustrate me in this life, and one of those things is me being indecisive. (Or is it?  [Sorry for the terrible pun])

I’m worst when it comes to designing - I’ll desperately want to design (or redesign) something, and I’ll come up with something elaborate, and then flip-flop back and forth between using the new design and not using the new design.  Eventually, I end up deleting the design (one of the most dumb things I do, I know) and I’m back to square one again: still wanting to design, still not able to decide if I like my work enough to thrust it upon peoples’ retinas…  Today, alone, I’ve abandoned three separate designs - which, bar reaching for data-recovery tools, are gone forever.  Not that I mind of course… as I shall explain.

The theme you see on this blog at the moment is an example of me resigning myself to just using something simple, and sticking with it - there’s very little to complain about, there’s very little that could get in the way of reading, or viewing, and that’s about it.  However, as a designer, I like showing off a bit of artistic flair.  Designs such as those that graced my old portfolio page get me excited, but I quickly lose the enjoyment of viewing them myself (one such example can be seen here - hidden from public view these days).

I know there are at least a couple of other designers who read my blog and so I ask, “what are your views on the problem?”

Design becomes infinitely less enjoyable for me as I find myself less and less satisfied with my own work - even though other people do enjoy and appreciate it.  How do you, or would you, overcome the perpetuating cycle of ‘redesign, evaluate, delete, redesign…’?

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