Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> Some web sites are broken. They may be too lazy to make sure their >> interface is usable to work without javascipt ... Or they may want to >> force you to use it, to facilitate doing things you'd rather they >> didn't
jd1008: > In addition to allowing the gmx.com javascript, > you have to also allow these javascripts: > > indexww.com > openx.net > googlesyndication.com > uicdn.com > exponential.cm > googletagmanager.com > googletagservices.com > > In other words, this is all malware they are pushing into your browser > which blithely executes them and damn the torpedoes. While I can't comment on whether they're malware, we're going to continue to see more and more of this thing, as various turn-key web solutions (internet shop fronts that are being put on-line by some computer nerd, instead of the business paying for someone to create a decent on-line service), become less self-contained, and rely on external services to do their tricks. I particularly notice that with the various googletag domains - how you can't select things, nor see prices, on shopping sites without enabling it. And if you go to news sites, there's a mass of external services that want to be allowed, because the page has incorporated external content from twitter (& other social media), instead of quoting from it. You also find that those pages rapidly become stale, because the incorporated content disappears on them. I use two add-ons with Firefox, as my defaults for all installations, the FlashBlock and NoScript ones. They do take care of most annoyances, until you come across a page where you have to experiment with which of more than a dozen external services need allowing before the page works. And it often requires reloads for another half-dozen *new* services to be contemplated as they get dragged in by the content you'd just allowed moments ago. Quite apart from the nuisance factor on you, it is a disaster waiting to happen to the websites. People keep discovering cross-site exploits, and if your website relies on a plethora of external services to run, you've exposed yourself to an extra onslaught of exploit vectors. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Windows, it's enough to make a grown man cry! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
