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NoScript mentions (53)

• What It's Like to Use Apple's Lockdown Mode

  You should check out https://noscript.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Is javascript always bad?

  Good or bad depends on the intentions of the website you're visiting, and unfortunately also of the many 3rd party script sources it includes. Users should have a chance to decide which sites they trust to run JavaScript and which they do not, and this is the reason why 18 years ago I've created NoScript, and why it is still there and shipped by default inside the Tor Browser. Source: 5 months ago

• PSA: We're all ripe for phishing attempts while looking for Reddit alternatives

  Use a different name, password, and email if you can. Keep an adblocker and noscript handy. Don't accept cookies from new sites. Maybe even use the TOR browser for better anonymity and safety while you're giving these new platforms a test run. Source: 11 months ago

• Ask HN: Browsing the web with JavaScript turned off?

  I do (with the NoScript browser extension: https://noscript.net/). The main reason is to reduce my attack surface. A secondary benefit is it eliminates most ads and other annoying distractions. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• GitHub Stars as a FOSS Metrics? 🤔

  I'll give an example of NoScript which is a great project that you should be using. Most people download the extension directly though their browser. Firefox shows 317,244 active users and Chromium shows 100,000+ users. Some people know of the website. Less people know of the GitHub project the NoScript Common Library (nscl). NoScript has 645 stars and nscl has 15 stars. 417,244+ active users and only 660 stars.... Source: 12 months ago

AdAway mentions (73)

• OpenAI just replaced its core values with completely different ones

  AdAway can install itself as a VPN provider on your Android phone for the sole purpose of modifying traffic and blocking content. It is not actually a VPN. https://adaway.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ads these days..

  Seeing this I'm even more happy that I use AdAway. Source: 10 months ago

• 📣 Blokada 6 Update! 📣

  If filtering is done locally on the device itself (i.e. Like in AdAway, DNS66, NetGuard or personalDNSfilter) it's not. Source: 11 months ago

• 📣 Blokada 6 Update! 📣

  I switched to AdAway once the whole VPN/"reading your private connection requests" advertising came up in Blokada. Source: 11 months ago

• Revolut App will not run on Magisk Rooted phone, unrooting fixes

  I have installed Lineage OS 13 on my OP 6T, then added Magisk to be able to launch as root. It was initially for AdAway to run as super user. Revolut complained and refused to start. Source: 11 months ago