Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off

Re:Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe brow... by blub on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:55PM (#10433712)

NoScript is unfortunately quite sketchy, I don't use it any more.

It has a whitelist supposedly to not break "top websites", but this list contained IMO some questionable choices last I checked it. It also tries to connect to the dev's website for no reason at all (addons are updated directly from Firefox) and after updates, "to show the release notes".

Last but not least, this is the same dev which got involved in a scandal for trying to underhandedly whitelist the said website into an ad-blocking addon.

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Re:Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe brow... by okasaki on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:27PM (#10433943)

What list is that? I'm looking at it and I'm pretty sure I personally whitelisted all of those domains. The only ones that seem to have come from NoScript are the about:... ones

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Re:Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe brow... by blub on Friday October 23, 2015 @03:41AM (#10437332)

I reinstalled it to check again and it seems you are correct, there's nothing except about:* links. I remember it had some big portal websites I hadn't visited and would not enable JS for, however I am willing to accept I was wrong. Unfortunately, I can't edit my initial comment any more.

Thanks for checking and sorry for my confusing initial post...

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Re:Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe brow... by ljk on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:50PM (#10434127)

Wow, didn't know that. Any suggestions for NoScript alternatives?

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