Is there anything vaguely equivalent to NoScript for iOS?

May 4, 2018 7:00 AM

Can I achieve the same kind of protection NoScript provides on desktop systems on iOS, despite NoScript not being a thing on that platform??

I'm brand new to iOS, and am just getting my internet security legs on this platform. I've been messing about with regular Firefox, Firefox Focus, and 1Blocker, however have still run across an instance of the old fake pop-up notification scam as described in this recent Ask. On my Mac, using Firefox and NoScript, the same site does nothing weird, on anything else, the site produces the shady fake pop-up - therefore, must be the product of some shady script, most distressingly on Firefox iOS as it's hard to kill the tab. Help!?

posted by threecheesetrees to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

I use an app called Better. That seems to catch most of the things that the built-in ad/script blocking doesn’t catch. I think you have to use Mobile Safari to get the benefits of native blocking though.
posted by Happy Dave at 8:15 AM on May 4, 2018 [1 favorite]

Purify is what I’ve been using for ages. Works invisibly and awesomely.
posted by Celsius1414 at 9:36 AM on May 4, 2018 [2 favorites]

iCab mobile is the most configurable browser on iOS--try it on your hinky link. Under tools, you can filter your User-Agent string by website, so you could pretend to be Lynx, which doesn't support Javascript.
posted by Jesse the K at 9:27 AM on May 6, 2018

The Brave web browser for iOS has the option of blocking JavaScript. It can't do selective whitelisting though, and script blocking is off by default.
posted by runcifex at 2:53 AM on May 7, 2018