Userscripts for some ongoing issues

[okiehsch]

We endorse/support some userscripts for ongoing hard to fix issues, for example https://github.com/List-KR/microShield.
We do this in various issues, it would be better to add all of them in a note in our readme or a pinned issue imo.
What do you all think?

[stephenhawk8054]

I agree. Having a common place for users to see which to add/solve which sites would be good.

[ghajini]

one of the ongoing issue , antiadblock on dropgalaxy.com & devuploads.com
a Very Usefull Userscript is developed by a developer @seia-soto ,thanks for your help & contribution
Please find userscript at https://seia-soto.github.io/userscripts/

• Install a userscript manager such as violentmonkey or tampermonkey
• Click on Devuploads Defuser at https://seia-soto.github.io/userscripts/
• This will install corresponding userscript

[garry-ut99]

Another one of ongoing issue - circumvention ads on chip.de can be also fixed by installing https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardExtra userscript : #21504 (comment)

[stephenhawk8054]

@gorhill What do you think about this? Currently we are recommending pixeltris' userscripts for Twitch on various support threads (github, reddit...) anyway. Would tickboxes/toggles in the settings for these scripts be better for users?

[ItsProfessional]

Would tickboxes/toggles in the settings for these scripts be better for users?

Counter argument: That's introducing remote code execution into uBO, unless gorhill is willing review to each revision of the script(s) before they go live for uBO users (which is unlikely for understandable reasons).

[stephenhawk8054]

I mean it's the same as when users use userResourcesLocation for years now, especially as we are already instructing them how to add the userscripts for Twitch case.

We are not enabling it by default, there's no RCE without users' knowing and consents of using it.

[ItsProfessional]

If it's added, there should be a confirmation with warnings about RCE and that the author of the extension isn't responsible for any form of damage when users enable those scripts.

[garry-ut99]

It was already declined in the past: a Wiki commit with links to community scriptlets was reverted by another commit (even despite one of authors of the scriptlets was a uBO team member):

Given: "The documentation is not the place to maintain a list of external source of scriptlets. " - then following the same logic: uBO is even more not such place either, unless like already mentioned, each script revision would be reviewed manually by uBO creator, which would require time and effort and can be considered "burden of maintentain" or unless changed mind and the logic does not apply anymore nowadays in 2024 given more and more websites require 3rd-party scripts solution, also it's worth to remember what happened with Nano in the past:

Spoiler

• List of compromised websites and scope of damage, by Nano Adblocker and Defender jspenguin2017/Snippets#5
• [Announcement] Recent and upcoming changes to the Nano projects NanoAdblocker/NanoCore#362
• Discussions regarding recent changes to the Nano projects jspenguin2017/Snippets#2