QUOTA_BYTES quota exceeded

[kamilion]

As requested, here is your issue report.

Now, how do I make it go away?

[ghostwords]

Hello! Thanks for reporting your problem. Could you run the following code in your Badger's background page and let me know what gets printed?

To get to the background page console in Chrome, visit chrome://extensions, make sure "Developer mode" is checked, click on the "background page" link in Privacy Badger's row, and select the Console tab.

Let me know if you have any questions.

This should print how much space your Badger uses:

chrome.storage.local.get(null, r=>console.log(
  parseFloat(JSON.stringify(r).length / 1024 / 1024).toFixed(2), "MB"));

This should print what your most populous domains are:

(function () {
  let action_map = badger.storage.getStore('action_map').getItemClones();

  let result = _.chain(Object.keys(action_map))
    .countBy(domain => getBaseDomain(domain))
    .map((v, k) => {
      return {
        base: k,
        count: v
      };
    })
    .sortBy('count')
    .reverse()
    .slice(0, 10)
    .map(i => {
      i.domains = _.filter(Object.keys(action_map), d => d.endsWith(i.base));
      return i;
    })
    .value();

  console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
}());

[kamilion]

First one returns 4.91 MB,
Second one returns:
"base": "pubnub.com",
"count": 35576,
"base": "googlevideo.com",
"count": 553,
"base": "disqus.com",
"count": 549,
"base": "wordpress.com",
"count": 179,
"base": "photobucket.com",
"count": 158,
"base": "google.com",
"count": 86,
"base": "alicdn.com",
"count": 54,
"base": "akamaihd.net",
"count": 45,
"base": "tinypic.com",
"count": 44,
"base": "googleusercontent.com",
"count": 32,

[ghostwords]

Oh wow, I think we know what the problem is, it's pubnub.com. Well, it's really the combination of #888 and #1864.

As a workaround for now (this problem may come back until we take care of #1864), you can run the following code in your Badger's background page to make it forget about pubnub.com:

(function () {
  let am = badger.storage.getStore('action_map');
  for (let domain in am.getItemClones()) {
    if (window.getBaseDomain(domain) == "pubnub.com") {
      am.deleteItem(domain);
    }
  }
}());

Let me know if running the code and restarting Privacy Badger (by clicking Reload on chrome://extensions or by restarting the browser) helps.

[kamilion]

4.91MB -> 1.33MB.

Here's the dump, with the disqus and wordpress entries removed for privacy.

I am in Silicon Valley, if that helps as a georeference for the listed servers.

pbadger.json.gz

[ghostwords]

OK, thanks for following up! Closing this as the fix is tracked in #1864. Let me know if this comes up again.

[kamilion]

What's the best method to whitelist the noisy-named domains cleanly?
*.pubnub.com on it's own line?
I can remove it in six months or a year.

[ghostwords]

What do you mean by "whitelist"?

Correction to #1902 (comment), there is a better workaround you can run in the background page that will remove all domains that shouldn't have been recorded:

require("migrations").Migrations.forgetNontrackingDomains(badger);

[alwaysontheice]

I just encountered this same issue except with a Google AdSense domain: *.googlesyndication.com. Following the above steps (but changing the domain) allowed me to remove thousands of entries. Not sure what caused the issue in the first place.