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Hi guys, I'm investigating because I'm pretty sure I have a spyware somewhere. To be honest I don't know where exactly it is for this reason I'm investigating.
There is a weird thing about NoScript on Firefox 128 on OpenBSD. The problem is that I'm not able to block ggpht.com domain.
If I watch some videos on yt I see the ads because I don't have any adblock installed. If I open devtools I see that the ads come from yt3.ggpht.com so I tried to block it (no trusted) adding ggpht.com to the blocked domains in the options. But it does not work... I mean if I open the devtools the ads persist and FF continue to download ads from that domain. I tried to ad yt3.ggpht.com to the blocked domain but nothing was changed.
Then my question is:
is that behaviour strange or it's absolutely normal and there is something that I didn't understand ?

Here are two shots
https://imgur.com/a/5H2PgKY

It's normal to see requests to ggpht.com when browsing Youtube, and it's expected for it not to show up in NoScript because Youtube doesn't load any active content from ggpht.com, it's only images.

NoScript is not an ad blocker, it's not the right tool for this job. Any ad blocking NoScript happens to do is only a side effect.

Seeing ads on Youtube when not using any adblocker is not an indicator of "spyware" or even anything wrong at all.

ok, so maybe I don't fully understand how noscript works. I thought noscript blocked everything from a certain domain. Now I understand that it only blocks javascript. Is that correct?

I didn't say that advertising is an indicator of spyware. There have been many data leaks related to my private life and I'm investigating to see if I see any anomalies.

virgo wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 9:13 pm I thought noscript blocked everything from a certain domain. Now I understand that it only blocks javascript. Is that correct?

While NoScript indeed does not block everything, it's more than just Javascript: NoScript is a security tool, with its main feature being blocking active content. For an overview of what NoScript can block, see viewtopic.php?t=26285 and https://noscript.net/usage/#crosssite-protections

Thanks