Reviews for Origin Enforcer
Origin Enforcer by sje
5 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by SedUz, 2 months agoTotally rubbish, malicious extension. Brakes GMail attachment download. IMPOSSIBLE to know that this crappy extension brakes that - because no informative icon. I wasted 1 hour of my time debugging extensions and disabling 100 of good security extensions, which actually worked fine. I advise to stay away of this extension, it can't be used and brakes websites.
- Rated 4 out of 5by grahamperrin, 5 years agoArchive of a previous review, and the developer's response:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200402064106/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/origin-enforcer/reviews/1467641/
The December 2019 screen recording is also archived:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191227155912/https://s.put.re/T6dHDQVA.mp4
Side note: the extension promotes DuckDuckGo, I prefer Startpage:
https://www.startpage.com/
https://forum.privacytools.io/t/-/1989/16?u=grahamperrinDeveloper response
posted 5 years agoThank you,
Yes, i see, thanks for the great screen recording.
I agree it is a confusing interface, and difficult to get sites working that depend on third parties.
The list of recently blocked calls can be confusing, since after changing a setting, it is hard to determine what was blocked since the change.
The screen recording is showing how it works, and looks to be working as intended.
This site looks to need all the thirdparty domains except youtube.com enabled to fully display and work.
Even though it is a one off setup per domain, it is a problem if there are many sites like this (and assuming the sites are not refactored again to change domain calls). But at the same time, it protect you again a site introducing tracking later.
This model of managing background calls may never be really suitable for normal use. It is a bit simplistic blocking by domain. It was a bit of an experiment, just trying to follow a philosophy of domain sandbox with the user in control. It maybe needs to allow some things permently, maybe suport URIs not just domains. I get by often by ignoring images, and don't visit many sites, and try to use clean sites (like duckduckgo.com has no cross domain calls). - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15141306, 5 years agoIt does not work for me. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.2 with Firefox 68.
The sidebar of Origin Enforcer opens, but "Allowed for", "Blocked for" and "Recently blocked for" are complete empty, even on pages that verifyable have cross site requests. I can see requests to googletagmanager in the network tab of the developer console, but OE does not recognize them. Any suggestions?Developer response
posted 5 years agocan you put about:debugging in the url bar
click on 'this firefox'
go to 'origin enforcer' and click 'inspect'
if you can see some errors on the console, you can send them to me - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14088537, 6 years agoLike this better than ad blockers. It stops all the junk, makes browser run faster. Today some websites have so much junk that the browser slows down or stalls.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15092595, 6 years agoI find this an excellent addon.. highly recommend it.