Using NoScript Firefox Extension to Quickly Find Out What 3rd Party Services a Website is Using

Submitted by kai on Wed, 2007-10-03 21:00. ::

NoScript is a great Firefox extension that lets you hand-pick which web sites to be allowed to use JavaScript, Java, and Flash. You can surf online safer and faster(because of fewer JavaScripts running).

Another cool thing about it is that by looking at what domains NoScript allows and blocks(right-click on the "S" icon), you get an idea of what kind of services a website uses. BTW, you can just look at the HTML page source codes to find out what JavaScripts are loaded if you have too much time.

For example, you can see my site loads JavaScripts from "google-analytics.com","performancing.com", "crazyegg.com"(all 3 are web analytics services), "meebo.com"(the Meebo chat widget).

I can see techcrunch.com is using hittail.com for finding out what keywords people are using to find techcrunch.

Go check out your favorite sites to see what 3rd party they are using.

Tags: firefox extension javascript noscript

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2007-11-08 03:18.

be careful with those declarations

javascript:
num = prompt('input char number',126);
num=parseInt(num,10);
format=prompt('input format',2);
format=parseInt(format,10);
alert(num.toString(format));

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