Using NoScript to selectively block JavaScript across all websites has opened my eyes to the sewers we wade through online
Using NoScript to selectively block JavaScript across all websites has opened my eyes to the sewers we wade through online
This comment encouraging me to try out NoScript Security Suite (Firefox) changed my life. googletagmanager is used everywhere!
It’s weird to me that you would click a link and without your consent JS code can be downloaded from wherever and run on your computer.
NoScript is always on for me (on my personal PC). Sites that don’t load at all are probably not worth visiting.
not only is noscript your general browsing prophylactic, but it will often render js paywalls climbable. I have no other plugin as loved and as useful as noscript - immediate install on any firefox instance.
I first gave NoScript a spin sometime in the mid-2010s. It was an adjustment, to say the least. But once you get used to temporarily allowing a new target domain as a matter of course, holy hell does the whole game come into specific relief.
The Washington Post, for example -- which I was a paid subscriber to until it shit the bed -- wanted JS from some 25 domains (many of which were Amazon ad related). I also have NoScript on Firefox on my Pixel.
Firefox, uBO and NoScript are the floor for passable internet hygiene to me.
You can already block all js and give specific allowances through uBO. Having both uBO and NoScript is redundant, just FYI
At this point, using NoScript is muscle memory. No reason to add friction to a process, even if it may not be the most efficient method in terms of memory usage.
@ISOmorph @Powderhorn Please explain how, when #uBlockOrigin works based on blocklisting while #noScript uses allowlisting?
Yeah, it's getting addicting! I just found so much JS that is totally unneeded to watch Paramount+:
What the hell is all this crap? Man... so much tracking going on. All the
DEFAULTs are blocked and the TV I'm watching still loads perfectly fine. And if you try to go to thestepcattle.comone out of pure curiosity, uBlock warns you against it, yet robots prevent any info on it from appearing in search engines... capitalist bastards...Odd ... stepcattle doesn't sound at all like the sort of thing involving jackboots and train cars.
Shit the bed? Do you mean when Jeff Bezos (amazon cto) bought the place?
https://piefed.social/ is 99% functional with noscript, if you're into that. I have JS disabled while posting this comment.
Wow, incredible! Thanks, I had no idea.
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Yeah. It's bad out there.
I run ublock, with some custom additions. It breaks less stuff
Are you willing to share what any of these "custom additions" means?
In the extension settings you can add more filters. I've made a few extra
noscript xul version was the best back in the day :(
Bookmarking this! For everyone who posted, thank you!