A researcher has discovered that DuckDuckGo’s privacy-centric browser enables third-party tracking scripts from Microsoft Corp. to load in some cases. The discovery was reported by Bleeping Computer ...

npm 12 disables install scripts by default, requiring explicit approval to reduce dependency-based code execution risks.

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An upcoming release of Firefox will give users the option to block two increasingly common and ugly aspects of today's web: browser fingerprinting and cryptomining scripts. Neither type of script is ...

Chrome only: Google recently added on-demand script blocking to its browser's capabilities, and NotScripts is the extension that puts that blocking in your hands. In other words, it's an early Chrome ...

uBlock Origin 1.2.5 has been released with a new feature that blocks first-party tracking scripts that use DNS CNAME records to load tracking scripts from a third-party domain and bypass filters. A ...

Former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich's privacy-focused, ad-blocking browser has been quietly rolling out new features for desktop. What sets Brave apart from other browsers and ad blockers, was Eich's ...

Around 9% of today's most popular websites deployed or are deploying anti-adblock scripts in an effort to maintain advertising revenues and fight off the rise in the adoption of ad-blocking extensions ...