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FSF announces JShelter browser add-on to combat threats from nonfree JavaScript

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, September 30th, 2021 -- The
Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the JShelter project,
an anti-malware Web browser extension to mitigate potential threats
from JavaScript, including fingerprinting, tracking, and data
collection. The project is supported by NLnet Foundation's Next
Generation Internet (NGI) Zero Privacy & Trust Enhancing Technologies
fund. Collaborators include Libor Polčák and Bednář Martin (Brno
University of Technology), Giorgio Maone (NoScript), and Ana Isabel