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Add mail.google.com!! I took the time to go to google accounts, re-login, disable the blocking on the various sites (accounts.google, mail.google etc.) to get it working, but I can imagine breaking gmail will be a quick route to "uninstall extension" for many people. :)

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UGH, you're right. Ok, let me explain this. We whitelisted google.com but it was not anticipated that, in the general case, we should really whitelist all subdomains in order not to break sites.

Luckily this was a one-line patch: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/pull/63 (though in the future, it is better for the whitelist to have wildcards in the cases where it's necessary).

Thanks for testing. Really helps a lot.

FYI, upgrading to 0.1.1 (released Friday) fixes the bug I mentioned. Subdomains of whitelisted sites are also whitelisted now. https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/pull/63/files

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