noscript icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
noscript copied to clipboard

Frequent, sometimes constant XSS errors on Tor Browser

Open RanTrycl opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

I've seen a few posts about this on reddit but not sure if the problem is mostly isolated.

Visiting the types of sites likely to be heavily dependent on advertising frequently triggers an avalanche of "suspected XSS attack" blue notification screens which often pop up so constantly as to render the original pages unviewable.

This is using Tor 10.5.2 and NS Version 11.2.10 on Ubuntu 20.1.

Is this a legacy problem and is there a solution?

Thanks so much for any thoughts.

RanTrycl avatar Jul 25 '21 21:07 RanTrycl

Visiting the types of sites likely to be heavily dependent on advertising frequently triggers an avalanche of "suspected XSS attack" blue notification screens which often pop up so constantly as to render the original pages unviewable.

You mustn't use Tor Browser on any level other than "Safest". It defeats the purpose of using it.

KOLANICH avatar Jul 26 '21 04:07 KOLANICH

@KOLANICH is right on this. However, if for some reason you really need a lower level not blocking those 3rd party requests (which for Firefox users are usually filtered out by ad blockers) the popup you can choose to block the (potential) XSS request permanently, so you're not bothered again by that one.

hackademix avatar Jul 26 '21 07:07 hackademix