Category: Anonymity

Save Trust, Save OTF

As the readers of this blog almost surely know, I’m the author of NoScript, a web browser security enhancer which can be installed on Firefox and Chrome, and comes built-in with the Tor Browser. NoScript has received support by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) for specific development efforts: especially, to make it cross-browser, better internationalized… Continue reading Save Trust, Save OTF

X-Do-Not-Track? DNT, c’est plus facile…

Also Firefox’s native implementation of the Do Not Track proposal will end using the eponymous header, after all. It will be shrunk to DNT for bandwidth sake, though, without the “X-” and on its way to be submitted as an IETF internet draft. Waiting for Firefox 4, NoScript 2.0.9.7rc4 has already adopted the new header… Continue reading X-Do-Not-Track? DNT, c’est plus facile…

X-Do-Not-Track and the X-Not-Invented-Here Syndrome

Firefox embracing “Do Not Track” directly, shortly after Adblock Plus and NoScript started experimenting with it, is great news of course. Just, why exactly inventing yet another header (“X-Tracking-Choice”) rather than reusing the “X-Do-Not-Track” proposal, which had even been endorsed by Sid Stamm himself?

X-Do-Not-Track support in NoScript

Latest NoScript (2.0.9) supports the Do Not Track tracking opt-out proposal, joining AdBlock Plus in this experiment. From now on, a web browser with NoScript installed warns every HTTP server it contacts that its user does not want to be tracked, i.e. that his data must not be collected for profiling and persistent identification purposes.… Continue reading X-Do-Not-Track support in NoScript