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Reintroduce noscript-wrapped redirects blocking

Open KOLANICH opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Some websites intentionally disrupt workflows of users without JS. For example vk.com redirects any user without JS to the page advertising installation of a "modern browser", promoting the own fork of Chromium first of all.

I remember that in XUL/XPCOM-based versions of NoScript there was a feature to disallow redirects wrapped into noscript tags.

KOLANICH avatar Feb 17 '22 09:02 KOLANICH

Yes, this feature existed in Classic. At this moment you can partially make up for it either by disabling the noscript capability (for DEFAULT or CUSTOMizing the site) or by having Firefox to ask for confirmation for meta refresh (accessibility.blockautorefresh about:config preference set to false).

hackademix avatar Feb 17 '22 11:02 hackademix

At this moment you can partially make up for it either by disabling the noscript capability (for DEFAULT or CUSTOMizing the site)

Yeah, I currently have to resort on this. The sites doing such redirects usually don't use <noscript> tags for anything useful for such users. The problem with that is that I cannot return to the page I had been redirected from by just using back feature, I return to the page before that one and it is very inconvenient.

KOLANICH avatar Feb 17 '22 21:02 KOLANICH

Very annoying for sites that do this. Is there a userscript I can use to prevent <noscript> from being used for specific websites in Chromium? Using ungoogled-chromium and Violentmonkey.

shadow7483147 avatar Jun 02 '22 20:06 shadow7483147