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FSF to Release New Major Browser Privacy Extension

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This week the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the JShelter project, "an anti-malware Web browser extension to mitigate potential threats from JavaScript, including fingerprinting, tracking, and data collection."

The browser add-on — supported by NLnet Foundation's Next Generation Internet (NGI) Zero Privacy & Trust Enhancing Technologies fund — is currently "in development and the first release is available." This browser add-on will limit the potential for JavaScript programs to do harmful actions by restricting default behavior and adding a layer of control....

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This will be nice. Helping tame the tsunami of malware we seem to be inundated with nowadays.
 
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