ABE Quantum is the combination of Contextual Policies, one of the most requested features in NoScript’s history, and LAN protection, an important “Classic” defense lost in the 2017 Quantum migration. After years of waiting and months of hard work, this good stuff (which I personally missed a lot, too) is finally in the hands of… Continue reading Contextual Policies & LAN Protection (ABE Quantum) in NoScript 11.3!
Category: Mozilla
Welcome SmartBlock: Script Surrogates for the masses!
Today Mozilla released Firefox 87, introducing SmartBlock, a new feature which “intelligently fixes up web pages that are broken by our tracking protections, without compromising user privacy […] by providing local stand-ins for blocked third-party tracking scripts. These stand-in scripts behave just enough like the original ones to make sure that the website works properly.… Continue reading Welcome SmartBlock: Script Surrogates for the masses!
Save Trust, Save OTF
As the readers of this blog almost surely know, I’m the author of NoScript, a web browser security enhancer which can be installed on Firefox and Chrome, and comes built-in with the Tor Browser. NoScript has received support by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) for specific development efforts: especially, to make it cross-browser, better internationalized… Continue reading Save Trust, Save OTF
A cross-browser code library for security/privacy extensions. Interested?
The problem Google’s “Manifest V3” ongoing API changes are severely hampering browser extensions in their ability to block unwanted content and to enforce additional security policies, threatening the usefulness, if not to the very existence, of many popular privacy and security tools. uBlock’s developer made clear that this will cause him to cease supporting Chromium-based… Continue reading A cross-browser code library for security/privacy extensions. Interested?
Cross-Browser NoScript hits the Chrome Store
I’m pleased to announce that, some hours ago, the first public beta of cross-browser NoScript (10.6.1) passed Google’s review process and has been published on the chrome web store. This is a major milestone in NoScript history, started on May the 13th 2005 (next year we will celenbrate our 15th birthday!). Over all these years… Continue reading Cross-Browser NoScript hits the Chrome Store
