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    3 years ago

    This has been around forever, but no one adds license info to their JS

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      If “forever” means the same thing as “a few months”, I agree!

      JShelter isn’t about licensing, it’s about API usage. It can also combat threats from free javascript. I use it in combination with uMatrix. Just allowing or rejecting javascript from a particular domain isn’t enough. JShelter isn’t LibreJS. It doesn’t limit what javascript gets loaded, it limits what that javascript can do.

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        3 years ago

        It’s a different name, but I distinctly remember being annoyed by it many years ago. It would trigger on almost every website that included the tiniest bit of JS without license attribution

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          It’s not merely a different name. It’s an entirely different extension which does something completely different. JShelter isn’t LibreJS. JShelter doesn’t have anything to do with licensing.

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            JShelter does stuff like blocking precise gelocation, determining battery level, leaking local IP address, responding to analytics beacons, etc.

            It limits the APIs that JS is allowed to use.