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Blocking JavaScript without Breaking the Web: An Empirical Investigation. (arXiv:2302.01182v1 [cs.SE])
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Modern websites heavily rely on JavaScript (JS) to implement legitimate
functionality as well as privacy-invasive advertising and tracking. Browser
extensions such as NoScript block any script not loaded by a trusted list of
endpoints, thus hoping to block privacy-invasive scripts while avoiding
breaking legitimate website functionality. In this paper, we investigate
whether blocking JS on the web is feasible without breaking legitimate
functionality. To this end, we conduct a large-scale measurement study of JS
blocking on 100K websites. We evaluate …
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