<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>ehaughee</author><text>This actually made me try switching to Firefox again.  There&amp;#x27;s some minor things missing, but for the most part all the features I want are there.</text></comment>