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 ...

DuckDuckGo Friday announced it will begin blocking Microsoft tracking scripts on third-party websites, and is working on technology that analyzes private ad conversions that can be validated as ...

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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 ...

A popular Firefox add-on designed to block scripts and plug-ins has been updated to stymie the new “clickjacking” class of attacks, the extension’s developer said today. The latest version of NoScript ...