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Is anyone aware of a way to be alerted if we are using such extension? A sort of anti-virus for extensions if you will.
by cmer 6y ago
Is anyone aware of a way to be alerted if we are using such extension? A sort of anti-virus for extensions if you will.
- Deathmax 6y agoMy personal policy is that if an extension doesn't have a very limited scope (for example adblockers that need full access to everything), it has to be open source and I'll install it from source to control when extensions are updated.
- ChrisLTD 6y agoThe only adblocker I’ll install is Privacy Badger from EFF. If the EFF starts injecting malware, I think I’ll go ahead and stop using the internet and move to a cabin in the woods.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoPrivacy Badger isn’t an adblocker but an anti-tracker. Even the developers of Privacy Badger probably assume that you will be running their plugin alongside uBlock Origin.
- ChrisLTD 6y agoTrue, but since most ads are also trackers, it does a decent enough job for me.
- blacksmith_tb 6y agoDNS-based adblocking (like Pihole, NextDNS etc.) works well in this scenario, nothing installed locally.
- inter_netuser 6y agodo you use it? how's the success rate so far? lots of web properties now serve ads from origin, blockindg dns might not help with that?
- LinuxBender 6y agoNot real time. I MITM all my connections in squid and log all requests, so at very least I can look back at my daily logs and see if anything sticks out. Most of the time I am just looking at HIT/MISS ratios but I do sometimes find odd requests that usually turn out to be some embeded link in a page. What I won't see is any POST data contents unless I already have the dev console open.
- gruez 6y agoBoth firefox and chrome have addon blocklists for that exact purpose.