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I personally find umatrix far superior to noscript. I also dislike the fact that noscript keeps forcing "update" popup tabs about their latest updates, which ha

I personally find umatrix far superior to noscript. I also dislike the fact that noscript keeps forcing "update" popup tabs about their latest updates, which have zero utility except to serve obfuscated ads on the author's domain that bypass your adblocker and noscript. That has always rubbed me the wrong way, and a couple of years back I switched away from no-script entirely and haven't really looked back. Edit - This is a good example of what I'm talking about: https://i.imgur.com/Lwr3xhY.png https://i.imgur.com/Lwr3xhY.png

vbezhenar 7y ago
How can I use umatrix to enable some of JS? So like browsing the web with JS off by default and enable it for selected websites.
- justusthane 7y ago
  It's easy: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/How-to-block-1st-party-scripts-everywhere-by-default https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/How-to-block-1st-par...
- _coveredInBees 7y ago
  There are a couple of options. You can either click the big power button style icon in umatrix on any website that allows all js on that website. This will also allow all trackers, etc, but is handy in a pinch when doing something like making a purchase on a new website where you don't want to have something go wrong mid-way because some js was blocked from a critical domain. You also have more fine-grained control where the matrix interface allows you to white-list specific domains (and you can select whether you want JS/Frame/cookies, etc per domain). If you save your white-listing, that will always be remembered even across other websites. So for example, if I were to white-list twitter.com for js/frame and save that, then if I visit another site that embeds links to twitter widgets, those will work because you've already white-listed twitter. Umatrix does take a bit of effort initially when you start with a blank slate, but over time, it works fairly well and I feel a lot more comfortable browsing the web with it.
  - vbezhenar 7y ago
    Thanks. I would rather break those twitter scripts as I'm completely not interested with that kind of functionality :) I hope, web today is not very broken without JS, I used to use noscript with Firefox years ago and it worked good enough for me.
- heinrich5991 7y ago
  Disable JS globally and whitelist specific pages.
basch 7y ago
I agree, umatrix is so superior, the only justification I can see for using noscript is comfortability in convention or not wanting to rebuild your current exceptions list.

vbezhenar 7y ago

How can I use umatrix to enable some of JS? So like browsing the web with JS off by default and enable it for selected websites.

justusthane 7y ago
It's easy: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/How-to-block-1st-party-scripts-everywhere-by-default https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/How-to-block-1st-par...
_coveredInBees 7y ago
There are a couple of options. You can either click the big power button style icon in umatrix on any website that allows all js on that website. This will also allow all trackers, etc, but is handy in a pinch when doing something like making a purchase on a new website where you don't want to have something go wrong mid-way because some js was blocked from a critical domain. You also have more fine-grained control where the matrix interface allows you to white-list specific domains (and you can select whether you want JS/Frame/cookies, etc per domain). If you save your white-listing, that will always be remembered even across other websites. So for example, if I were to white-list twitter.com for js/frame and save that, then if I visit another site that embeds links to twitter widgets, those will work because you've already white-listed twitter. Umatrix does take a bit of effort initially when you start with a blank slate, but over time, it works fairly well and I feel a lot more comfortable browsing the web with it.
- vbezhenar 7y ago
  Thanks. I would rather break those twitter scripts as I'm completely not interested with that kind of functionality :) I hope, web today is not very broken without JS, I used to use noscript with Firefox years ago and it worked good enough for me.
heinrich5991 7y ago
Disable JS globally and whitelist specific pages.

basch 7y ago

I agree, umatrix is so superior, the only justification I can see for using noscript is comfortability in convention or not wanting to rebuild your current exceptions list.