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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-19 14:14 UTC

dhowe / AdNauseam

AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance

JavaScriptGPL-3.0★ 6,795 stars⑂ 248 forkssince Feb 2016forkView on GitHub ↗
KindBrowser extensionLibraryhow this is determined

dhowe/AdNauseam holds a health index of 80 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (95/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (41/100). It was last updated 4 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

80
overall / 100
Excellent

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

80
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 68 is calibrated to 80 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Daniel HowePersonal account
336 followers206 public repossince Apr 2011

This repository is owned by a personal account. A single-owner project carries more continuity risk than an organization-backed one.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
npm@gorhill/ubo-corepoints to another repo — not scored0.1.3013,42926742 days agoublockuboadblocktrie

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

95Exceptional · 21% of overall
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 4 days ago
35.3/36Commit cadence — 51/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 930 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 22 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year930
human_commit_share1
days_since_last_push4
active_weeks_last_year51
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 100 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 23 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~14.5 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
Inputs used
releases_count100
latest_release_tagv3.29.2
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release23
mean_days_between_releases14.5

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

60Moderate · 17% of overall
How it's scored
60/60Stars — 6,795 stars
19.9/25Forks — 248 forks
10.9/15Watchers — 91 watchers
Inputs used
forks248
stars6,795
watchers91
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history
How it's scored
0/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (GPL-3.0)
0/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeno
has_licenseno
readme_badges6
has_contributingno
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_servicesbadgen.net, opencollective.com, shields.io, travis-ci.org
has_pull_request_templateno

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

59Moderate · 23% of overall
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
5.2/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 77% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 100 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 19 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled100
top_contributor_share0.77
How it's scored
37.7/42Issue resolution — 90% of issues closed
28.1/30PR acceptance — 787/840 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
merged_prs787
open_issues195
closed_issues1,712
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d0
prs_decided_30d0
issue_closed_ratio0.898
closed_unmerged_prs53
first_time_authors_30d0
first_time_prs_merged_30d0
first_time_prs_decided_30d0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.
How it's scored
10/30Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
18.2/25Owner reach — 336 followers of dhowe
25/25Track record — 206 public repos, account ~15 yr old
Inputs used
followers336
owner_typeUser
is_verified—
owner_logindhowe
public_repos206
account_age_days5,662
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

71Good · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 1 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
16/16Linter config — .eslintrc.json, eslint.config.mjs
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4.editorconfig
0/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — no data
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigyes
has_linter_configyes
has_precommit_configno
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests. Remaining weights renormalized.
How it's scored
0/30README
25/25Documentation directory
0/15Documentation / homepage site
0/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 6 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicsprivacy, privacy-enhancing-technologies, adversarial-examples, surveillance, critical-design, browser-extension
has_wikiyes
homepage—
docs_site—
has_readmeno
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionno

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

58Moderate · 16% of overall
How it's scored
4.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — binaries present in source code
0/7.5Branch-Protection — no data
0/2.5CI-Tests — no data
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 19 contributing companies or organizations
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
7.5/7.5Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 22 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5Packaging — no data
2.5/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5
0/5SAST — no SAST tool detected
5/5Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
7.5/7.5Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
0/7.5Vulnerabilities — 31 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated15
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive3
scorecard_aggregate4.7
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, CI-Tests, Packaging. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional
How it's scored
35/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
0/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories37
affected_packages11
assessed_packages206
unassessed_packages0
affected_by_severitycritical 1, high 7, moderate 3
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 206 resolved dependencies against OSV. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

41Weak · 4% of overall
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
3.2/40Legible commit history — 6 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.06
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
How it's scored
18/18One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22Automated tests
11/11Lint / format config — .eslintrc.json, eslint.config.mjs
0/11Static type checking
10/10Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
0/8Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
5/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilespackage-lock.json
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageno
bootstrap_filesMakefile
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configyes
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — JavaScript without a type-check config
52/55Manageable file sizes — 19/353 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageJavaScript
largest_source_bytes1,406,653
source_files_sampled353
oversized_source_files19

Key facts

6,795GitHub stars
100contributors
930commits, last 12 months
4days since last push
100releases
1bus factor
195open issues
npmpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
  • Community profile unavailable
  • Could not fetch npm package 'AdNauseam' from its registry
  • Could not fetch npm package 'adnauseam-benchmark' from its registry
  • Could not fetch npm package '@gorhill/ubo-dig' from its registry
  • npm package '@gorhill/ubo-core' points at a different repository (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock); excluded from ecosystem scoring

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 248 ⇿
0Stars
248Forks
100Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

050100150200250248192016-022021-062026-09
Major 0Minor 12Patch 19

Each point covers 10 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 4.7 / 10
4.7aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-10-19 14:14 UTC

6Binary-Artifactsbinaries present in source code
n/aBranch-Protectioninternal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
n/aCI-Testsno pull request found
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0Code-ReviewFound 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10Contributorsproject has 19 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
0Dependency-Update-Toolno update tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained30 commit(s) and 22 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
5Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5
0SASTno SAST tool detected
10Security-Policysecurity policy file detected
0Signed-ReleasesProject has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
10Token-PermissionsGitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
0Vulnerabilities31 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 4
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
npmpuppeteer-core^23.0.0benchmarking/package.json
npmpuppeteer-extra^3.3.6benchmarking/package.json
npmpuppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth^2.11.2benchmarking/package.json
npmpuppeteer-extra-plugin-user-data-dir^2.4.1benchmarking/package.json
All dependencies 206

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 4 direct and 202 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

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Dependency advisories 11

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 206 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 11 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
flatted3.3.3indirectcritical23.4.2
basic-ftp5.3.1indirecthigh16.2.1
brace-expansion1.1.12indirecthigh75.0.12
brace-expansion1.1.14indirecthigh65.0.12
extract-zip2.0.1indirecthigh2—
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minimatch3.1.2indirecthigh310.2.3
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@humanfs/node0.16.6indirectmoderate10.16.8
ajv6.12.6indirectmoderate18.18.0
ip-address10.2.0indirectmoderate710.7.1

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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