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Disabling a lot of the bloat makes random pages break, which is an even worse experience.

• jerf 7y ago
  But it is compensated for by the sites that actually work better when you strip their non-local JS from them. I've lost track of the number of times I've come to the HN comments and read about how unreadable the page was due to all the popups and ads and modal dialogs when I just read the text. You're absolutely not wrong that some sites get worse, but it's not one-sided in that direction.
  • swinglock 7y ago
    uBlock Origin is probably the better middle way for most. It should accomplish what you describe most of the time yet breakage is the exception instead of the rule.
• gsich 7y ago
  Those random pages are not worth the visit then.
• pmontra 7y ago
  Would I recommend uMatrix to my non technical friends? Absolutely not. For technical people it's a matter of self selection. It's worse for the ones of us that can't bother checking which scripts break the page and deciding whether to enable them. It's great for the others. Personally I can't imagine using the web without uMatrix (and uBlock Origin). For the site that really breaks no matter what, if I really need it either I open it in a Vivaldi private window (I only have uBlock in that browser) or if anything else fails, I start Chrome and close it immediately after I did what I had to do.