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General reasons for using NoScript: security (js sandboxes are not flawless), privacy (brower fingerpring [1][2], Sniffly [3], ...), less CPU usage, less UI blo
by progval 10y ago
General reasons for using NoScript: security (js sandboxes are not flawless), privacy (brower fingerpring [1][2], Sniffly [3], ...), less CPU usage, less UI bloat (modal popups, blinking stuff, ...; although I have to manually whitelist some websites).
[1] https://amiunique.org/ https://amiunique.org/
[2] https://github.com/ben174/hsts-cookie https://github.com/ben174/hsts-cookie
[3] https://github.com/diracdeltas/sniffly https://github.com/diracdeltas/sniffly
- sedachv 10y agoGreat summary. I recommend uMatrix (https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix) which has really good controls for toggling not just JavaScript but also cookies, XHR, frames, etc for origin and 3rd party/cross-domain requests with per-site settings. A lot of websites that need JavaScript will still work if you enable loading of scripts from the origin domain but leave things like Google Analytics, etc, from other domains blocked. uMatrix is also easier to use and has a much smaller footprint than ad blockers.