How does cside's approach compare to the complexity of managing a WAF?

Cside is much simpler because we're only handling JavaScript files, not your entire web infrastructure. With a WAF, you need to configure rules for all your traffic, manage SSL certificates, handle different content types, and worry about breaking legitimate requests. A WAF also has no overlap with cside, as a WAF monitors inbound requests, not client-side activity or server responses to the client-side. While some WAF vendors inject Content Security Policies, we built cside from the ground up to address client-side security by design and not as an afterthought. With cside, you just add our NPM package or one script tag to your pages and configure which third-party scripts you want us to analyze. There's no need to restructure your entire web architecture or manage complex proxy rules.