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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by crooked-v on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:06PM (#15335177)
> What I'm looking for is a user-facing, user-friendly structure that A) Does only what the user wants to do eg. load site B) Explicitly does NOTHING else eg run javascripts for cryptocurrency.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjal...

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by hellbanner on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:07PM (#15335179)
Wish there was open-source browser that did this, with SecureBrowser*tm concept in my above post to automate this.

This is a step in the right direction and does satisfy the 2 basic requirements I listed for more security, thanks for sharing!

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by JetSpiegel on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:42AM (#15336889)
> Wish there was open-source browser

uBlock works on Firefox too. Can't get more open shots than that.

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by hellbanner on Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:34AM (#15356339)
https://www.ublock.org/ for anyone interested
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