[Guide] Globally Blacklisting Scripts From Running on MTurk's Bank Account Management Pages

t0nja · Mar 12, 2020

BTW do not forget to do this any time you have to reinstall TamperMonkey.

Sheri · Mar 14, 2020

ChrisTurk said: ↑
UPDATE 12/17: AMT is aware of the conflict w/ script url matching & as the system matures I think we can expect a more permanent solution from their end which is ideal! In the meantime I'd still recommend making the changes below just to be safe

I just updated TVJS to explicitly exclude itself from running on the new (known) MTurk Bank Account Management pages, but I'd seriously advise users to add these pages to their TamperMonkey global blacklisted pages.

IMO, there is no reason to allow scripts to run on these new domains. Even though the information is obfuscated scripts could potentially still make changes without user knowledge. By default, most known payment processing sites (PayPal, Stripe, etc) are blacklisted by TamperMonkey/Greasemonkey and I'd advise all workers to add these configurations to the extension to ensure the new worker bank account management options are guarded.

In the past this was naturally the case, as Amazon Payments is on a different domain than MTurk, so workers using a MTurk related script never granted access to their payments options. They are now on the same domain, and any script whitelisted for worker.mturk.com can trigger on the new pages.

Be EXCEPTIONALLY careful who you are installing scripts from nowadays. I do not have access to the new pages yet and I'm not familiar enough w/ TMs architecture to know if this will still disallow "silent" network requests to these pages or not. Even if not malicious, any of the tons of scripts that just include "worker.mturk.com" can/will trigger on these pages and could cause unintended conflicts/glitches (especially be careful with the gift card button if it is still there, I STILL can't see these pages myself so relying on 2nd hand knowledge to try and navigate)

Chrome - TamperMonkey

Load chrome-extension://dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo/options.html#nav=settings

Change "Config mode" at the top of the General header to "Advanced"

Scroll down to the Security header

Add these two domains to the Blacklisted Pages section - pay attention to the trailing * and make sure to include it!

Save
Code:
https://*.mturk.com/direct_deposit*
https://*.mturk.com/payment_schedule*
FireFox - TamperMonkey

Click the TamperMonkey icon in the navigation bar (should be top right by default) & click "Dashboard"

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Go to the Settings tab

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Change "Config mode" at the top of the General header to "Advanced"

Scroll down to the Security header

Add these two domains to the Blacklisted Pages section - pay attention to the trailing * and make sure to include it!

Save
Code:
https://*.mturk.com/direct_deposit*
https://*.mturk.com/payment_schedule*
Example Image:
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Rook · Jun 22, 2020

Would this work as well? I'm wondering if the wildcard would take care of the dot before mturk as well? Thanks for your help!

https://*mturk.com/direct_deposit*

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