<story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yborg</author><text>I found this disturbing:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Chromium-based browsers are being “infested” by Instart Logic tech which works around blockers and worst, around browser privacy settings (they may start “infecting” Firefox eventually, but that is not happening now).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;From his linked post:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Instart Logic will detect when the developer console opens, and cleanup everything then to hide what it does&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Is this implemented via a CDN-delivered script? Why would Chromium-based browsers be more susceptible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>i2shar</author><text>It is indeed disturbing. Why should a web page be able to detect if dev tools has been opened? Isn&amp;#x27;t this a browser security issue?</text></comment>
<story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yborg</author><text>I found this disturbing:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Chromium-based browsers are being “infested” by Instart Logic tech which works around blockers and worst, around browser privacy settings (they may start “infecting” Firefox eventually, but that is not happening now).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;From his linked post:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Instart Logic will detect when the developer console opens, and cleanup everything then to hide what it does&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Is this implemented via a CDN-delivered script? Why would Chromium-based browsers be more susceptible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forapurpose</author><text>Also:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The purpose of Instart Logic technology is to disguise 3rd-party requests as 1st-party requests, thus bypassing content blockers, and even the ability of browsers to block 3rd-party cookies (because they are stored as 1st-party cookies):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;gorhill&amp;#x2F;uBO-Extra&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sites-on-which-uBO-Extra-is-useful#instart-logic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;gorhill&amp;#x2F;uBO-Extra&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sites-on-which-uBO...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>