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Do you have any privacy/ad-blocking extensions installed? I used to have the same issue and realized it was due to the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension. When I turn that extension's protections off for cs.opensource.google then it works.

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Hey, DDG engineer here. Sorry about the issue, that’s super annoying. I want to get this fixed, but I’m having trouble reproducing the issue - navigating to the link in the parent comment seems to work as expected for me. Any chance you’d be willing to provide a few repro steps so I can track down what’s going on? Namely: - which browser you’re using and version - extension version - when it’s happening. Does it only happen when you click a link from another site?

Thanks so much for your time, and for sharing the issue.

Well, turns out I'm no longer able to reproduce the issue either. I just turned DDG Privacy Essentials back on for https://cs.opensource.google and I was able to view the site just fine.

Back when it was happening (maybe ~1 year ago?), I was using the latest versions of Firefox and DDG Privacy Essentials and it ocurred even if I went directly to https://cs.opensource.google. I had confirmed back then that when I turned DDG Privacy Essentials on I got "Permission denied", but with it off I was able to view the page.

I'm on the latest verisons of Firefox and DDG Privacy Essentials now. Seems it is no longer an issue in the latest version(s).

Thanks for following up! Appreciate it. We’ve been investing quite a bit of effort over the past few months into tracking down and understanding issues like this that are caused by our various privacy protections, so it’s nice to hear that things are improving.

Well, yes I do use uBlock Origin as well as DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, but for that page I turned them off months ago. It still doesn't work :-/

It's source code. If we can't read it without privacy extensions, it doesn't work.

Even more: as reading on a machine that has the Go toolchain installed, this is source code that is already available on the local filesystem.

> If we can't read it without privacy extensions, it doesn't work.

What doesn't work?

Reading source code.

The same source code is also part of the Go distribution ($GOROOT/src). The Google source browser isn't the only place it's available.

Yes, you can find the documentation in other places and that is what I usually do, but it sucks because this is the official documentation of the programming language.

Having those links to quickly take a look at the implementation is what made this documentation so good.

1. I'm not always on a computer that has the go distribution

2. In that case, why allow reading the code un the browser ?

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