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I recently started listening to This Week In Tech (TWiT), and Security Now!, both podcasts with Leo Laporte. He is always talking about NoScript, so I decided to check it out again since I find myself tangling with malware more often on the web.

So I google NoScript, and the official site looks to be the top hit. Click the link, and.... I see ads. Wait a minute, I have adblock plus! I poke around, even click on the ads (what new creatures these are!) to see whats going on. I do a little more googling and come across two interesting blog posts:

http://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users
http://hackademix.net/2009/05/04/dear-a ... community/

I don't mean to dig up skeletons from a couple of years ago, but I'm curious as to what's going on. Deciding to experiment a little, I disable and then enable ad blocking specifically on the NoScript main page. I don't see a difference in the ads. I had already started looking through the FAQ, and I did a brief search of the forums and didn't come across anything relevant.

I totally get trying to protect your revenue stream, and I'm not being judgmental about what's going on, I just want to know what is going on.

I am currently using "Fanboy's list" as a filter subscription on Ad Block plus. I just updated to FF 4 a few days ago, and Ad Block Plus was updated with it.

So why do I see ads on the NoScript page, even if I use Ad Block Plus to explicitly block all ads on the page?

In an effort to hear both(?) side of the story, I posted this on the Ad Block Plus forums too:

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7356

You see them because they're embedded inside the page, rather than loaded from an external ad network.
On a side note, they're not behavioral nor they track you like most ad networks do.
These ones are just static images with a link.

Well I personally find this an unnecessary post and discussion. If the goal was was to dig it up, then I wonder why? If not, then I again wonder why you couldn't gather this from the existing posts that clearly explain this. I smell a smear but then again to each their own.