npm 12 disables install scripts by default, requiring explicit approval to reduce dependency-based code execution risks.

In response to recent software supply chain attacks, NPM version 12 is blocking the automatic script execution at install.

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Chrome only: Google recently added on-demand script blocking to its browser's capabilities, and NotScripts is the extension that puts that blocking in your hands. In other words, it's an early Chrome ...

An upcoming release of Firefox will give users the option to block two increasingly common and ugly aspects of today's web: browser fingerprinting and cryptomining scripts. Neither type of script is ...

A researcher has discovered that DuckDuckGo’s privacy-centric browser enables third-party tracking scripts from Microsoft Corp. to load in some cases. The discovery was reported by Bleeping Computer ...