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Hi, one of the authors here. We discuss this in the last section of the post. uBlock Origin uses lists to determine which requests to block. We tested the two l

Hi, one of the authors here. We discuss this in the last section of the post. uBlock Origin uses lists to determine which requests to block. We tested the two largest, EasyList and EasyPrivacy, and both fail to block scripts from FullStory, Smartlook, and UserReplay.

pmoriarty 9y ago
How about NoScript, RequestPolicy, and Privoxy? Were the blocking capabilities of any of these tested by your team?
- dylz 9y ago
  Assuming it's used correctly ,noscript/requestpolicy should block these as they are 3rd party <script src>s
  - dsr_ 9y ago
    RequestPolicy appears to have been killed by FF57.
ams6110 9y ago
I checked the hosts file I normally use (MVPS) and they don't seem to be in there either, unless they serve the scripts from a non-obvious domain. Also fun fact, TurboTax uses SmartLook.
- maxerickson 9y ago
  That doesn't seem very problematic to me. You are anyway trusting TurboTax with a bunch of sensitive information.
  - ams6110 9y ago
    Yes, but you may not realize that SmartLook is also getting all that information.
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gorhill 9y ago
I suggest uBO's medium mode, this blocks 3rd-party scripts by default. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
- alinspired 9y ago
  thank you for suggestion in this unexpected place. i wish i knew of this uBO feature before!