1. ~Links changed to target="_blank" so visitors can remain reading the page~
2. Some signers might add their URL without http(s)://, therefore the links wouldn't work as expected. Added function to check for these addresses and prepend http:// if missing

I did some testing on my fork and it should solve the problem now.

(Tested by tagging 9 issues in the same time, the new approach handled them correctly: commit, action run)

This new approach also increases robustness, so that even if the worst-case workflow run fails, any previously unprocessed issues will be reprocessed the next time any issue get labeled.

These changes create a JSON snippet for each new issue labeled by signature (see example), and append the snippet to the script.js once the issue get tagged as signature-approved.

I took a glance at the letter and it looks like there are some instances of URLs getting screwed up.

Minteck, who is right now signer 1986, has their URL listed as "https://Twitter: @_Minteck".

My signature (issue #2394) hyperlinks to my GitHub rather than my personal website, which is annoying because GitHub is a proprietary service by which I'd prefer not to be represented, and I'm sure others will have this issue.

Robert Stark (issue #3620)'s entry hyperlinks to https://appleprivacyletter.com/BigCat.ceo rather than their website, that they listed, BigCat.ceo.

Remko Tronçon (issue #3618)'s entry hyperlinks to their GitHub rather than their website, https://mko.re, which redirects to https://el-tramo.be/.

Edmund Edgar (issue #3616) has the same issue as Stark's.

And so on. I only looked at a handful of closed issues to find these, so I'd think that this is pretty common.

Hi, I might have filled out the form wrong, I am signing as an organization (called Swivro) but I believe you added me as an individual.

Originally posted by @kasperireland in https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/appleprivacyletter/issues/6091#issuecomment-895223077

Using GitHub is fine for devs, but the average person does not have a GitHub account. Most will not want to crest an account just to sign a petition. I believe this severely bottlenecks the number of people we can get to sign this petition, as it basically limits it to the developer community.

Are you sure the methodology you outline in the letter is accurate? Because A. in Apple's technical paper it nowhere mentions iMessage B. it does not continously monitor (quote) photos saved or shared on the user's iPhone, iPad, or Mac but those uploaded to iCloud. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sharing and also not with saving something on device.

Name

Kushal Das

Affiliation

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Website/Twitter/etc.

https://twitter.com/kushaldas

• [ ] I am signing as an organization.

@nadimkobeissi My signature appears two times on the letter, n. 5786 and n. 5787. May be my fault, I applied a first time and closed the issue myself, then a second time. Sorry.

Originally posted by @resoli in https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/appleprivacyletter/issues/8684#issuecomment-898866208

Name

Oleg Gomozov

Affiliation

No response

URL of your Website/Twitter/etc.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleg-gomozov/

• [ ] I am signing as an organization.