257717 - Add pref to disable third-party javascript (like cookies)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 207807

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[deemon_ru]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

Currently, third-party javascript such as  <script
src="http://annoying.ads.com/setcookie.js"> always gets executed, although it is
obviously a bigger threat to privacy than third-party cookies. Therefore, it
would be nice to have an option to have it disabled (anyway, 99% of it is used
to push more ads), or possibly another option to allow it from the same
top-level domain (similar to cookies), so that sports.about.com can freely use
includes from script.about.com but not from more.ads.com


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I don't know about the difficulty of implementing this. Confirming.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 207807 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change