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What's the advantage of using an add-on like ScriptSafe against just disabling JS in settings?
by dazc 10y ago
What's the advantage of using an add-on like ScriptSafe against just disabling JS in settings?
- seba_dos1 10y agoThe point is not to block JS completely, but to disallow it when not necessary (which it isn't for most of the time). There are plenty of legitimate uses of JS and keeping "allow JS on this domain now" button in accessible place is very handy. Plus of course you can lift the restrictions selectively for each domain. From my experience it usually takes one or two domains to allow in order to get the needed functionality, and the rest (usually around 10) can be kept blocked.
- sotojuan 10y agoYou can whitelist easier and quicker and in some blockers you can block specific ad or tracker domains only.
- distances 10y agoI use uMatrix for blocking scripts. By default I allow all 1st party scripts, and disable the rest. Then I can enable additional sources one by one if site functionality (e.g. playing YouTube videos) needs it.