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How anyone used the internet without and adblocker AND script blocker is beyond me. This is my hardware and I am going to control it.

Beaver117 5y ago
Curious how do you browse the internet without scripts? I've heard people doing this for over a decade and even then it would render most of the internet unusable.
- caleb-allen 5y ago
  I've tried it a few times for couple of weeks at a time, and it is really difficult. I inevitably enable scripts after a few weeks. It's just so tedious to do by hand, although it's nice to browse without jarring changes to the page as you load. It would be great if there were some kind of community powered block list that adhered to some kind of standard. Probably easier said than done
  - heavenlyblue 5y ago
    I just have a plug-in that allows to disable us for a specific website
  - vimacs2 5y ago
    uBlock Origin makes this pretty easy actually. You just have to enable the "I am an advanced user" checkbox in it's settings and it turns into a more user friendly NoScript, with an easy way to save settings for specific sites that require third party scripts or frames to function. As the creator himself says, uBlock Origin is not just an ad blocker, it's a wide spectrum blocker.
- Shared404 5y ago
  For me, I just enable things piecemeal as I think a site is worth it. I know there are people who maintain a browser profile with scripts enabled - for the Twitter's and Indeed's of the world that get upset if you don't have scripts on.
- bostbayawayy 5y ago
  You allow scripts on sites that require them, as needed. Maybe you allow a few big domains like cloudfront. Let's use CNN as an example. I load their mobile site with scripts blocked, and I see a menu with links that lead to mostly-broken news sections. So I allow scripts from cnn.com, and the frontpage loads normally. The links work, and I can even see the puppy bowl headline's gif. When I check which sites were blocked from loading JavaScript, there are 20 domains: ads-twitter.com, adsafeprotected.com, bounceexchange.com, casalemedia.com, cnn.io (probably okay?), cookielaw.org, etc... Most modern sites have dependencies that don't really seem necessary. Social media, ad networks, telemetry...whatever those sites want to do, I don't really need it to read a news story.

Beaver117 5y ago

Curious how do you browse the internet without scripts? I've heard people doing this for over a decade and even then it would render most of the internet unusable.

caleb-allen 5y ago
I've tried it a few times for couple of weeks at a time, and it is really difficult. I inevitably enable scripts after a few weeks. It's just so tedious to do by hand, although it's nice to browse without jarring changes to the page as you load. It would be great if there were some kind of community powered block list that adhered to some kind of standard. Probably easier said than done
- heavenlyblue 5y ago
  I just have a plug-in that allows to disable us for a specific website
- vimacs2 5y ago
  uBlock Origin makes this pretty easy actually. You just have to enable the "I am an advanced user" checkbox in it's settings and it turns into a more user friendly NoScript, with an easy way to save settings for specific sites that require third party scripts or frames to function. As the creator himself says, uBlock Origin is not just an ad blocker, it's a wide spectrum blocker.
Shared404 5y ago
For me, I just enable things piecemeal as I think a site is worth it. I know there are people who maintain a browser profile with scripts enabled - for the Twitter's and Indeed's of the world that get upset if you don't have scripts on.
bostbayawayy 5y ago
You allow scripts on sites that require them, as needed. Maybe you allow a few big domains like cloudfront. Let's use CNN as an example. I load their mobile site with scripts blocked, and I see a menu with links that lead to mostly-broken news sections. So I allow scripts from cnn.com, and the frontpage loads normally. The links work, and I can even see the puppy bowl headline's gif. When I check which sites were blocked from loading JavaScript, there are 20 domains: ads-twitter.com, adsafeprotected.com, bounceexchange.com, casalemedia.com, cnn.io (probably okay?), cookielaw.org, etc... Most modern sites have dependencies that don't really seem necessary. Social media, ad networks, telemetry...whatever those sites want to do, I don't really need it to read a news story.