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> Most sites, almost all, would break if browsers suddenly disallowed third party scripts You would be surprised how many sites still render fine with blocking
by gorhill 11y ago
> Most sites, almost all, would break if browsers suddenly disallowed third party scripts
You would be surprised how many sites still render fine with blocking 3rd-party scripts. For instance, the OP article on "threatpost.com" rendered just fine with all 3rd-party scripts blocked. Actually, the page rendered even better this way, because the links on the page worked just fine, which is not the case if allowing 3rd-party scripts from "netdna-ssl.com".
Also, "break" can be defined many ways here, depending on whether you want a page to just render fine, or whether you want all features on a page to work properly[1].
And even without blocking all 3rd-party scripts, it is very beneficial to at least block 3rd-party scripts from ubiquitous sources[2], if only for page load speed.
[1] "all features" as in "all features which enhance a page arguably to the benefit of the user".
[2] Example of ubiquitous 3rd parties: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode#raw-data https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode#raw-dat...