Web Script Settings
Control whether the cside web script runs and which release channel is served, using the Developer Mode and release channel settings in Team Settings.
Two team-level settings control the cside web script: Developer Mode, which turns the script on or off for every domain, and a release channel that picks which build of the script is served. Both live under Team Settings > General.
To reach them, open Settings from the top navigation, then select the General tab.
The General tab only appears for teams that use the web-script product. Device-Intelligence-only teams will not see it. Changing either setting requires the Manage Team permission. Without it, the controls are disabled and show a “You do not have permission to manage this team” tooltip.
Web script monitoring (Developer Mode)
Developer Mode is an on/off switch that applies to every domain in the team. It decides whether the cside client script does anything at all - handy while you debug your site or during maintenance.
- Off (the default): the full cside client script is served and runs. It monitors third-party scripts, collects metadata, runs detections, and enforces block rules.
- On: cside serves an empty JavaScript file for all of the team’s domains. Nothing is collected, detected, or blocked. Pages still load normally, but there is no cside protection. Device Intelligence (fingerprinting) is a separate product and isn’t affected.
Developer Mode has three places you can control and see it:
- Team Settings > General - the toggle described above
- The sidebar - a persistent control in the account box, visible to anyone who can manage the team. Amber when Developer Mode is on
- An app-wide banner - shown on every page, to every team member, while Developer Mode is on, with a one-click Resume button that only members with Manage Team permission can use (others see it disabled with a permission tooltip), so a paused team is never forgotten
All three read from and write to the same setting, so turning it on or off from any one of them updates the others immediately.
Turning Developer Mode on asks you to confirm, since it stops all web-script functionality across the team. Turning it back off (resuming monitoring) is a single click, from the banner, the sidebar, or Settings.
Toggling monitoring pushes an updated configuration out to cside’s edge locations, so a change can take time to propagate globally. Disabling and re-enabling are deliberately not cached at the edge, so they take effect quickly.
Web Script Release Channel
The Web Script Release Channel is a Latest / Stable control that picks which build of the cside web script is served. It changes which script is served, not whether it is served (that is Developer Mode above).
- Latest (the default): serves the newest released build of the cside web script. New detection logic and features land here first.
- Stable: serves a pinned, more conservatively vetted build. Use this when you want to lag behind the newest release for extra change control, for example on sensitive checkout pages.
You can set the release channel for the whole team in Team Settings > General, or override it for a single domain in Domain > Settings > General. A domain-level choice takes precedence over the team default. Only Latest and Stable are selectable.
Changing the release channel takes effect optimistically in the dashboard, but takes time to propagate to cside’s edge caches before every visitor downloads the new build.
Scope summary
| Setting | Scope | Controls | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Mode | Team only (all domains inherit) | Whether any script is served (full or empty) | Off (monitoring live) |
| Web Script Release Channel | Team, with a per-domain override | Which script build is served | Latest |
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