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ScriptSafe vs Noscript - difference?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 6:12 am
by chromium1111110000a
What is the difference between ScriptSafe on chrome / chromium and Noscript on Firefox?
I read that all script blocking addons on Chrome are basically useless because they are all easy to bypass... is this true?
Are there any plans to port Noscript to Chrome?
Re: ScriptSafe vs Noscript - difference?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:30 pm
by barbaz
Re: ScriptSafe vs Noscript - difference?
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:14 am
by qwerty0
Interesting. So does the fact that you referenced those threads in 2016 mean that the situation still hasn't changed? (I see Giorgio still hasn't ported it, so I take that as one indication.)
Re: ScriptSafe vs Noscript - difference?
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:29 pm
by barbaz
Yep.
Re: ScriptSafe vs Noscript - difference?
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 10:16 pm
by qwerty0
Cool, thanks.
Btw, any idea what APIs things like ScriptSafe/NotScripts/ScriptNo use to detect and block script loading? I remember reading an early blog post talking about how Chrome didn't want to implement any synchronous APIs, which by definition would be what blocking APIs are. But with these NoScript pretenders and adblockers existing now, I assume they added some.
Re: ScriptSafe vs Noscript - difference?
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 1:40 am
by barbaz
qwerty0 wrote:Btw, any idea what APIs things like ScriptSafe/NotScripts/ScriptNo use to detect and block script loading?
Nope. Try manually unpacking the extension and reading through its code.
Re: ScriptSafe vs Noscript - difference?
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 3:34 am
by qwerty0
Okay, worth asking, I figured!
I did google a bit and while I didn't find the whole story, here's an article suggesting NotScripts used a crazy hack to get around the initial lack of APIs for blocking requests. Sounds like they did something like adding fake entries to the cache to intercept script requests??
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/18/notscr ... le-chrome/