| # Kill Switch |
| The "Kill Switch" is a system which allows the extension maintainer and some |
| authorized people to remotely disable a specific feature which is misbehaving |
| to everyone. |
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| This folder contains the code that the extension uses to interact with the Kill |
| Swtich server to determine whether a feature should be disabled or not. |
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| ## Explanation |
| The kill switch mechanism works as follows: |
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| 1. There's a dashboard available at https://twpt-dashboard.avm99963.com/. There, |
| some authorized users can set some features to be disabled for everyone, |
| according to some criteria (it might be specified that only some versions of the |
| extension or some browsers are affected by this). |
| 1. When a feature is set from the dashboard as force disabled (what we call |
| "enable a kill switch"), an entry is added to the server's database. |
| 1. Every 30 minutes, the extension queries the server behind the dashboard, to |
| retrieve a list of force disabled features from the database. |
| 1. The extension processes this list, and if any of the features in the list |
| apply to the extension according to the linked criteria, it force disables |
| those. If, on the contrary, a feature which was force disabled is no longer |
| force disabled, the previous status is restored. |