Edward Snowden uses it. Every Tor Browser on Earth ships with it by default. And it works by breaking half the internet on purpose.
It's called NoScript.
One Italian developer named Giorgio Maone built it in 2005 on a single stubborn idea.
Instead of trying to catch malicious scripts after they load, why not just refuse to run any script until you personally say it's trusted.
Here's how it works:
- Every website's JavaScript is blocked the moment you land on the page
- You get a small bar showing exactly what tried to run and where it came from
- You allow only what you actually trust, permanently or just for that visit
- It was the first browser extension in history to block cross-site scripting attacks client-side
Yes, sites break. Buttons stop working. Menus freeze. That's not a bug. That's you seeing, for the first time, how much of the modern web is scripts you never agreed to run.
It's been protecting journalists, activists, and paranoid developers for two decades before "privacy extension" was even a category people searched for.
Free. Open source. Still maintained by the same guy who built it in 2005.
100% Opensource. Link in comments.
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