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NoScript and Adblock

Posted Dec 25, 2009 3:10 UTC (Fri) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
In reply to: Linux malware: an incident and some solutions by rickmoen
Parent article: Linux malware: an incident and some solutions

I completely agree with you. But then you went and mentioned NoScript and AdBlock:

http://lwn.net/Articles/332093/

Intentional?

Pete


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NoScript and Adblock

Posted Dec 26, 2009 7:48 UTC (Sat) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]

Pete wrote:

http://lwn.net/Articles/332093/

{shrug} The best solution to upstream antics is the one Jake Edge mentions, distro packages, which I always strongly, strongly encourage Linux newcomers to favour over going to upstream (absent rare reasons to the contrary). But NoScript / Adblock even with upstream antics are better than lacking them. Fortunately, both extensions are open source -- as many extensions advertised on https://addons.mozilla.org/ are not.

(My view, yours for a small royalty fee and waiver of reverse-engineering rights).

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

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