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> Recently cloudflare-workers-async-google-analytics has been blocked by EasyList. Great Job though. So I am going to play a cat & mouse game now. It was block

> Recently cloudflare-workers-async-google-analytics has been blocked by EasyList. Great Job though. So I am going to play a cat & mouse game now. It was blockable, but the author decided to rename the file to jquery.js.

folkrav 6y ago
Woah, that guy seems dead set on providing Google with everyone's metadata for some reason. As if we didn't have enough to worry about on the internet.
sneak 6y ago
It's still blockable, you just need to install NoScript.
- vifon 6y ago
  Would the uBlock dynamic filters not suffice?
  - djsumdog 6y ago
    uBlock Origin does have support for blocking all Javascript (and webfonts) and enabling them on a per-site basis.
rq1 6y ago
So they start to use malware techniques to get into your computer... I'm retaining myself to quote the famous "If it looks like a duck, moves like a duck...", but I won't. :-) That's another reason to use LocalCDN[0]. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork...
- fidelramos 6y ago
  I see that LocalCDN is a fork of Decentraleyes [0]. Personally I'm very careful with the extensions I install in my browsers, but the new features of LocalCDN are interesting, I hope they get picked up by upstream at some point. [0] https://decentraleyes.org/ https://decentraleyes.org/
- _jal 6y ago
  > So they start to use malware techniques It is a spectrum, not mutually exclusive. Ads are inherently 'mal-', in that you didn't ask for them and don't want them. Javascript provides the '-ware'. And the question is really if they're just there to distract you or do something worse to your machine.
Iv 6y ago
I think people are starting to catch up on why security-minded devs were always critical on depending on JS for so many silly things (displaying texts and images, seriously?)

folkrav 6y ago

Woah, that guy seems dead set on providing Google with everyone's metadata for some reason. As if we didn't have enough to worry about on the internet.

sneak 6y ago

It's still blockable, you just need to install NoScript.

vifon 6y ago
Would the uBlock dynamic filters not suffice?
- djsumdog 6y ago
  uBlock Origin does have support for blocking all Javascript (and webfonts) and enabling them on a per-site basis.

rq1 6y ago

So they start to use malware techniques to get into your computer... I'm retaining myself to quote the famous "If it looks like a duck, moves like a duck...", but I won't. :-) That's another reason to use LocalCDN[0]. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork...

fidelramos 6y ago
I see that LocalCDN is a fork of Decentraleyes [0]. Personally I'm very careful with the extensions I install in my browsers, but the new features of LocalCDN are interesting, I hope they get picked up by upstream at some point. [0] https://decentraleyes.org/ https://decentraleyes.org/
_jal 6y ago
> So they start to use malware techniques It is a spectrum, not mutually exclusive. Ads are inherently 'mal-', in that you didn't ask for them and don't want them. Javascript provides the '-ware'. And the question is really if they're just there to distract you or do something worse to your machine.

Iv 6y ago

I think people are starting to catch up on why security-minded devs were always critical on depending on JS for so many silly things (displaying texts and images, seriously?)