Browser Security
I don’t know if you care, but I’m reasonably paranoid about computer security, and this Firefox plugin is the best approach I’ve found. It defaults to disallowing every form of scripting on any site you visit until you explicitly approve it (via a little toolbar button in the status line that shows you all the sites the page is trying to run scripts from), either temporarily or permanently. It would be hard to get control more fine-grained than that and still be useful, though I do still use Adblock to block certain scripts from running on a site that I otherwise trust, just to block out ads that contain motion.
Note to advertisers if you happen to stumble across this: I will never put up with any ad that contains anything that moves, blinks, or changes color. As soon as I see one of those, I not only block the offending ad, I block the entire provider. If you want me to see your ad, you had better make it just sit there rather than demanding my attention.
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008