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Is noscript still the best for that? I haven't looked at other options in a long time.

kevingrahl 8y ago
If you want more granularity I’d suggest giving uMatrix a try. You’ll basically break every site at first and have to make adjustments for every site you visit (whitelist certain Ressourcen on a per domain basis) but I think it’s well worth it. NoScript (which is totally fine) just blocks all JS, uMatrix can block much more.
- shpx 8y ago
  NoScript lets you whitelist sites. Chrome's built in Javascript blocking is about as usable. Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Content Settings -> Javascript and then change "Allowed" to off. You can white list a domain by clicking on the padlock or the thing that says "Not Secure" in the URL bar on the left and clicking "Site settings" and changing Javascript to Allowed. In my opinion, the only real effect JS blocking has is you start complaining in HN comments about sites not working.
- jammygit 8y ago
  I found umatrix required me to turn so many things on for the average site that I wasn't sure it was blocking anything significant anymore. I suppose I have up after a while
  - kevingrahl 8y ago
    I can see why you’d feel that way but for me it still blocks a lot of stuff I don’t want. I block some domains/companies via my hosts file and run a pihole but there’s always the odd advertising network etc I, or my pihole didn’t knew about that gets blocked by uMatrix.
- JohnFen 8y ago
  > NoScript (which is totally fine) just blocks all JS Depends on the version of NoScript. If you stick with the older ones before this was broken, you're good. You can't do that with the new Firefox, though.
woogley 8y ago
Personally I prefer uMatrix. It has a nice CSS-ish quality to it, e.g. you can whitelist random subdomains like *.cloudfront.net _if_ the root page is a domain you trust already. It's still a pain to get rolling at first but it feels more friendly to me than noscript
- jandrese 8y ago
  uMatrix is a serious pain in the ass with reCapcha however, and for any site that embeds video. Plus it treats every site as unique so you have to redo the green boxes on every site.
  - abtinf 8y ago
    If you click on the asterisk between the domain name and the on/off button, it switches to global rule mode. Any allows/denies you save will be used across all sites.
notriddle 8y ago
uMatrix doesn't correctly work with the `<noscript>` tag, which breaks a lot of sites that attempt to implement progressive enhancement.

If you want more granularity I’d suggest giving uMatrix a try. You’ll basically break every site at first and have to make adjustments for every site you visit (whitelist certain Ressourcen on a per domain basis) but I think it’s well worth it. NoScript (which is totally fine) just blocks all JS, uMatrix can block much more.

shpx 8y ago
NoScript lets you whitelist sites. Chrome's built in Javascript blocking is about as usable. Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Content Settings -> Javascript and then change "Allowed" to off. You can white list a domain by clicking on the padlock or the thing that says "Not Secure" in the URL bar on the left and clicking "Site settings" and changing Javascript to Allowed. In my opinion, the only real effect JS blocking has is you start complaining in HN comments about sites not working.
jammygit 8y ago
I found umatrix required me to turn so many things on for the average site that I wasn't sure it was blocking anything significant anymore. I suppose I have up after a while
- kevingrahl 8y ago
  I can see why you’d feel that way but for me it still blocks a lot of stuff I don’t want. I block some domains/companies via my hosts file and run a pihole but there’s always the odd advertising network etc I, or my pihole didn’t knew about that gets blocked by uMatrix.
JohnFen 8y ago
> NoScript (which is totally fine) just blocks all JS Depends on the version of NoScript. If you stick with the older ones before this was broken, you're good. You can't do that with the new Firefox, though.

woogley 8y ago

Personally I prefer uMatrix. It has a nice CSS-ish quality to it, e.g. you can whitelist random subdomains like *.cloudfront.net _if_ the root page is a domain you trust already. It's still a pain to get rolling at first but it feels more friendly to me than noscript

jandrese 8y ago
uMatrix is a serious pain in the ass with reCapcha however, and for any site that embeds video. Plus it treats every site as unique so you have to redo the green boxes on every site.
- abtinf 8y ago
  If you click on the asterisk between the domain name and the on/off button, it switches to global rule mode. Any allows/denies you save will be used across all sites.

notriddle 8y ago

uMatrix doesn't correctly work with the `<noscript>` tag, which breaks a lot of sites that attempt to implement progressive enhancement.