DoNotTrackMe/Abine page loading with NS update

[kukla]

Just updated to the 2.6.8.35 and, besides the usual NoScript release notes page that came up, a full page ad for DoNotTrackMe from Abine appeared just next to it, in another tab. I have nothing against DNTM/Abine (have tried it but prefer Ghostery), but would like to know if this Abine ad is related to NS and if it's intentional. Has Abine worked out some kind of deal with NS that would explain why this is happening?

I expect to have control over what pages start loading in my browser. If this Abine advertising is related and intentional, I can't say I'm really too happy about that. I updated NS from my Snow Leopard partition earlier today and the same thing happened, but, since I also updated some other extensions along with that, I couldn't tie it to any one of them. This time, it was only NS that needed updating, so it does look like it's coming up because of that.

If it isn't related to the action of the NS update, then please excuse the finger pointing, and maybe someone may be able to explain why it is happening.

[Giorgio Maone]

You should further investigate your extensions list (or double check whether it's possible you had this tab already loaded and this being caused by Session Restore), because NoScript does not spawn any secondary tab beside the release notes page on updates.

[kukla]

Thanks Giorgio, I am relieved to hear that NS has nothing to do with this. It appears to happen only after doing an extension update that requires a restart. I just tested to see if it would happen simply on a FF quit and reopen (with history, cookies and cache cleared), but it didn't, and no idea which extension might be causing this. Can't be a session restore, first, because I don't have that enabled and, second, because I haven't gone anywhere near DNTM in at least a few years. As I said, I did once have DNTM, but I removed it, including all of it in prefs.js, so this page coming up like that is very strange. I also strongly doubt it's any form of adware I may have picked up.

Anyway, it's not your problem, and again, I'm very happy to hear that it's not something that NS is responsible for. Because of the very recent experience seeing the Uniblue ad, and that this came up again for the second time only with the NS update, I may have been predisposed to thinking that NS was the culprit. I will probably just go ahead and block Abine from Little Snitch. I hope you will understand why I thought it might be NS that was responsible, but again, please excuse the accusation.

Here's something interesting found at the DNTM page at AMO, although it isn't happening for me on FF quit and reopen. Have to find out which Add-on he removed that got rid of this.

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bad marketing Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by brienning on July 23, 2014 · permalink · translate

Never installed, advertisements kept opening when firefox opened or I opened new tags. I think I fixed that by deleting another add-on but it creeped me out and wasted my evening. I would never use now, no matter how good the actual product was. I am not pleased. This is not how to do business for a legit product. Stop it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... trackplus/ (Looks like this link isn't working correctly. It's just at the Mozilla review page for DNTM.)