I. GETTING STARTED:
First of all you have to install the extension.
1. Confirm that you have read the information on this site and agree to install the extension.
2. Click on "Install Gate peepin'"
3. A software installation window will pop up. By clicking on 'Install now' you allow Firefox to install the software.
4. Restart the Firefox browser.
5. After Firefox has been restarted a small eye will appear in the lower right corner of your browser window.
Left-clicking the eye enables/disables the extension.
Open eye equals enabled.
Closed eye equals disabled.
II. BROWSING THE NET:
Now try to browse the Web with Gate peepin' enabled ...
The normal login site of Facebook:
The login site of Facebook with Gate peepin' enabled:
Gate peepin' is intervening within visited web 2.0 platforms. The extension alters and re-edits the content of the visited sites by inserting phrases from the Terms of Services into the existing content.
The tool also integrates a summary of the Terms of Services in the browser.
III. HOW DOES IT WORK:
Peep in content:
Gate peepin' forces the regulations of the Terms of Services to leave traces within the content of the site. Triggered by keywords common to both the visited page and the terms of service, it re-edits the text of a visited website by inserting phrases from the terms directly into the site, thus turning the meaning of both the terms of service documents and the website content upside down.
Detail from a normal Flickr site:
Detail from a Flickr site with Gate peepin' enabled:
Peep summary:
Whenever a site is visited Gate peepin' integrates a summary of the Terms of Services governing the site into the browser window.
The summary includes an estimation of the time it would take an average reader to read the entire ToS document and it features a list of keywords and keyphrases and their occurencies along with a direct link to the ToS of the visited site.
Peep summary (extract): Facebook's Terms of Services
Peep summary (extract): Yahoo's Terms of Services
Peep summary (extract): Twitter's Terms of Services
The summary comes with a default list of keyword filters that includes: LOCATION, LICENSES, LIABILITY, OWNERSHIP, BEHAVIOUR, CONSEQUENCES, DISTRIBUTION and SECURITY. However, the filters are fully customizable and it is possible for the users to alter the existing filters or create their own if they would like to keep an eye on a
specific word or phrase.
IV. CUSTOMIZE GATE PEEPIN':
By right-clicking the eye in the lower right corner of the browser window and chosing preferences a preference pane in which you are able to customize the different Gate peepin' settings, will appear.
The preference pane allows you to change and adjust the settings for the peep filters, the peep sites as well as the peep layout.
In the preferences it is possible to decide if you'd like to have both Peep Summary and Peep in Content enabled or only one of them.
Customize the filters:
A filter contains a list of words and phrases that you are specially interested in keeping an eye on. It is possible to enable/disable the default filters, edit the filters or create entirely new filters.
* You enable the filters by disabling 'everything'. In this way all enabled filters will be active.
* Highlight a filter and select 'Edit filter' in order to change its status [ON/OFF], assing a new word to its list or deleting keyphrases or words from the filter.
* Select 'New filter' in order to create a new filter from scratch.
NOTE: When using filters Gate peepin first analyzes the ToS document for strings containing any elements from the filter. All strings found will together be used as the material that Gate Peepin' uses to compare with the visited site. Sometimes a word or phrase may not appear in the inserted ToS string, this is because the commonword is after the keyphrase, however the inserted string is part of the material you've been looking for.
Customize the sites:
Gate peepin' comes with a default list of territories in which it will intervene, but whenever you stumble upon a new service which you think should be included you can include it here.
How to assign a new site:
1. Click on "New territory". Then fill in the following ...
2. Name of the site ex:
YouTube
3. Most common URL pattern for the service ex:
youtube.com
4. URL to the Terms of Service of the site ex: http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
*** Please share your sites. Whenever a new site is added and shared it will be included as a default site in the next release of Gate peepin', thus helping us to extend the scope of Gate peepin'. Thanks for sharing :)
Here you may adjust and fine tune the layout for the interweaving phrases.
Examples of different appearances for Facebook's log-in site:
Default is 120% blue for common words and 90% red for the inserted ToS-phrases.
Here the ToS are blending in with the existing layout of the website. Common word: size 100%
Inserted Terms of Service text:
size = 100%; no colors
Common word: size = 400%; color = red
Inserted Terms of Service text:
size = 300%; color = orange