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Der ScriptJäger - die Erweiterung für den Jägermeister!
Sites can include JavaScript programs that improve the user interactive experience on them, in today's internet JavaScript is a key part on many sites to offer a good service and experience. Unfortunately JavaScript is also being abused and fully blocking JavaScript is not ideal as many pages simply stop working and all your extensions on the page as well. The same problem is happening with frames and websocket connections.
ScriptJäger gives the user the power to control which scripts, frames and websocket connections are loaded by the website, thus keeping site functionality but blocking trackers, ads and many other unwanted actions.
ScriptJäger is inspired on the idea of ScriptWeeder by lemonsqueeze for the Presto based Opera browser.
ScriptWeeder was also inspired by another extension, NoScript. But unlike its inspiration, ScriptWeeder focused on an easy to use experience.
After Opera ditched its in-house Presto engine to use Chromium Blink engine and offer a browser with less customisation, lemonsqueeze stopped development of ScriptWeeder and had no intentions to port it to the Chromium engine.
Later, the founder of Opera, Jon von Tetzchner decided to come back to the browser game and launched Vivaldi, also based on the Chromium project, with the same ideals of old Opera, customisation and functions.
This project is a way to restore this user control into Vivaldi and so has many similarities with ScriptWeeder.
A 'stable' version of the extension as a CRX file can be downloaded on the releases page.
The extension automatically checks for updates every 24 hours and will notify you of updates, if you cancel the notification a new one will be shown in the next 24 hours. The update check will send a normal GET request to GitHub to download the latest manifest file here, no other information is sent.
This extension is not available on the Chrome Web Store, if it ever becomes available on it this notice will be removed and a link to the store will be added. There are two reasons for this:
- You must pay a fee to be there
Yes, I must pay to help them make their browser more popular and track users - This fee is their verification method
Yes, you pay and you are verified, this gives no protection to the users
ScriptJäger is tested only under the Vivaldi browser and very sporadically on bare Chromium, though it should work on any browser built on Chromium. No matter which browser you are using remember to include this info when reporting a bug.