Saxon Posted January 3 Posted January 3 On 1/2/2025 at 3:02 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said: Tampermonkey "On January 6, 2019, Opera banned the Tampermonkey extension from being installed through the Chrome Web Store, claiming it had been identified as malicious" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampermonkey 2
jumper Posted January 3 Posted January 3 On 1/1/2025 at 3:51 PM, UCyborg said: About that font altering script adding text-shadow property, I do wonder about the line above, is division by 65025 intentional or a typo? Since largest unsigned 16-bit integer happens to be 65535. 65025 = 255 * 255 2
hidao Posted January 3 Posted January 3 (edited) 52 minutes ago, Saxon said: Then, why ask? Just want to know how it check... Edited January 3 by hidao
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 3 Posted January 3 1 hour ago, Saxon said: "On January 6, 2019, Opera banned the Tampermonkey extension from being installed through the Chrome Web Store, claiming it had been identified as malicious" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampermonkey <quote> On January 6, 2019, Opera banned the Tampermonkey extension from being installed through the Chrome Web Store, claiming it had been identified as malicious.[7] Later, Bleeping Computer was able to determine that a piece of adware called Gom Player would install the Chrome Web Store version of Tampermonkey and likely utilize the extension to facilitate the injection of ads or other malicious behavior. The site stated, "This does not mean that Tampermonkey is malicious, but rather that a malicious program is utilizing a legitimate program for bad behavior," going on to call Opera's blacklisting the extension for this reason a "strange decision".[8] </quote> Personally, I never (and advise others [at least the savvy ones that become members of such sites as MSFN] to also never) install any extension without looking through their javascript files &/or monitoring your DNS connections after installing! I actually also go so far as to never install via Chrome Web Store, or Edge Store, or whatever other "stores" that are out there. I personally quite enjoy downloading source and modifying to my liking before ever even installing. Mainly because I *despise* "phone-home" telemetry and equally *despise* "donation links". Donations should be solicited from where the extension is obtained, not annoyingly from each and every time you view the GUI. Just an opinion, of course.
VistaLover Posted January 3 Posted January 3 (edited) Tampermonkey once used to be open-source, but at one point (summer of 2018) it turned into closed source ; if you'd care to read the fine prints, under https://www.tampermonkey.net/privacy.php , you'd find: Quote Tampermonkey extensions and apps The Tampermonkey extensions and apps are capturing anonymous usage information, including but not limited to: the current version of the extension preferred language script installations for backlist updates browser and operating system type Furthermore, an error report is automatically sent to a self-hosted Matomo installation whenever an internal error occurs. The report contains some of the anonymous information stated previously along with the current extension version and a description of the error. You can prevent this information from being generated and sent by adjusting the settings on the browser extension accordingly. Please disable the "Anonymous statistics" setting to do so. Note: in incognito mode anonymous usage information is neither captured nor sent if technically possible ("split" mode browser support). For technical reasons sometimes (i.e. when Tampermonkey checks for black list updates) data as stated at point 5 is collected. You can disable this collection by adjusting the "Script Blacklist Source" and "Show TM update notification" setting. Nothing to be overwhelmed about (they note it can be "user-disabled"), but "home-phoning" it is (the default setting for "Average Joe") ... Besides, TM were very eager to quickly drop support for FxESR-52.9.0 (XP+Vista EoS) and early versions of Google Chrome, so I couldn't even use it on roytam1's Serpent (52|55) forks ; likewise, on early versions of the 360EE Chinese forks... As of now, my default choice for a (WebExtension) userscript manager is the open-source Violentmonkey extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/violentmonkey/jinjaccalgkegednnccohejagnlnfdag They're no longer supporting Fx52esr, but they're still supporting Chromium down to v61 (extension still being at MV2 ); latest stable (2.29.0) and even BETA (2.29.1) versions work fine in my Supermium profiles ; I feel most don't give it a chance because TM was/is more "hyped" ... Edited January 4 by VistaLover 1
VistaLover Posted January 3 Posted January 3 On 1/1/2025 at 4:59 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said: please install TAMPERMONKEY and ALLOW it to open its "thank you for installing" HOME PAGE. I have NEVER witnessed Supermium open up OVER A HUNDRED chrome.exe's until I installed TAMPERMONKEY in a fresh Supermium profile and as the first-ever Tampermonkey "default as-is" install. ... Sounds surprisingly similar to a recently filed Supermium issue on GitHub: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1105 Quote When I visit this page, BLAM! Dozens of new chrome.exe processes are created and memory consumption just begins to go up and up and up...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 3 Posted January 3 1 hour ago, VistaLover said: (they note it can be "user-disabled"), but "home-phoning" it is (the default setting for "Average Joe") Be warned that these "user-disabled" settings (in Tampermonkey) do NOT prevent the at-every-browser-launch line-of-communication to Google Analytics. I cannot speak towards "what" data is transmitted as I never allowed this at-every-launch transmission to ever occur, not even from within a VirtualBox VM. I did once give Violentmonkey a trial run. I do not recall having any issues with it, per se.
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 3 Posted January 3 1 hour ago, VistaLover said: ... Sounds surprisingly similar to a recently filed Supermium issue on GitHub: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1105 Yep, surprisingly similar! I did not have an ad-blocker installed and was looking only at Supermium + Tampermonkey + the four tabs that were posted by the OP at the time. I don't even recall what the Tampermonkey's "thanks for visiting" home page URL even is, but I have a hunch it is likely a bit heavy with ads. The OP at the time, if I recall correctly, wasn't even a fan of ad-blockers.
D.Draker Posted January 4 Posted January 4 On 1/3/2025 at 7:22 AM, Saxon said: One of the most notorious fingerprints Supermium has, it's the "version 99" tag, whereas all normal chromes have 24, https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1101 Well, looks like the lust for glory has finally caught up with win32, I don't know how else to explain it. Why would he intentionally edit that value? All those were supposed to be untouched, that value hasn't changed in decades. It's their internal coding, not related to the actual UA version, 3
D.Draker Posted January 4 Posted January 4 On 1/1/2025 at 10:59 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said: Out of intellectual curiousity, please install TAMPERMONKEY and ALLOW it to open its "thank you for installing" HOME PAGE. I have NEVER witnessed Supermium open up OVER A HUNDRED chrome.exe's until I installed TAMPERMONKEY in a fresh Supermium profile and as the first-ever Tampermonkey "default as-is" install. I always edit all those scripts and simply remove their lust for pings and callings home. I was under the impression you did exactly the same, no? 3
D.Draker Posted January 4 Posted January 4 On 1/3/2025 at 8:05 AM, hidao said: Just want to know how it check... https://blog.browserscan.net/docs/client-rects-font-fingerprinting 4
j7n Posted January 4 Posted January 4 With the autoplay disabling script, it's not sometimes possible to start playback when I want to. If I click on a direct link to a media file, I need to click on the black background and not the play button, which does nothing. Going to www.tampermonkey.net opens 20 chromes now with the extension active and 17 chromes with it disabled, and 12 operas. They will likely say that the extension is malicious because you're not supposed to tamper with webpages or software anymore. If you load an audio file in the brower, it displays this tiny playback window with black unused space all around it. Who invented this horrible slider widget with the circular grab handle that doesn't precisely point to any marks on it? It is not even suited for a touch screen like metro apps because of how small it is. Can I make the browser not close when I close the last tab?
VistaLover Posted January 4 Posted January 4 25 minutes ago, j7n said: Can I make the browser not close when I close the last tab? Set "chrome://flags/#close-window-with-last-tab" to "Never", then relaunch Supermium... 2
D.Draker Posted January 4 Posted January 4 11 hours ago, j7n said: Going to www.tampermonkey.net opens 20 chromes now with the extension active and 17 chromes with it disabled, and 12 operas. I'd classify this kind of behaviour as malicious. 3
VistaLover Posted January 4 Posted January 4 (edited) 51 minutes ago, j7n said: If you load an audio file in the brower, it displays this tiny playback window with black unused space all around it. Who invented this horrible slider widget with the circular grab handle that doesn't precisely point to any marks on it? It is not even suited for a touch screen like metro apps because of how small it is. ... You've guessed it, there's already a third-party extension that does better than those Google Chrome devs did : https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/local-audio-player/cdlcldfkcgmpndknbabgmhfkeeampkcn NB: To play local audio files, you have to go into the extension's settings: chrome://extensions/?id=cdlcldfkcgmpndknbabgmhfkeeampkcn#allow-on-file-urls and give it access to "file" URLs... Edited January 4 by VistaLover
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