This comment encouraging me to try out NoScript Security Suite (Firefox) changed my life. googletagmanager is used everywhere!
It’s weird to me that you would click a link and without your consent JS code can be downloaded from wherever and run on your computer.
NoScript is always on for me (on my personal PC). Sites that don’t load at all are probably not worth visiting.
not only is noscript your general browsing prophylactic, but it will often render js paywalls climbable. I have no other plugin as loved and as useful as noscript - immediate install on any firefox instance.
I first gave NoScript a spin sometime in the mid-2010s. It was an adjustment, to say the least. But once you get used to temporarily allowing a new target domain as a matter of course, holy hell does the whole game come into specific relief.
The Washington Post, for example – which I was a paid subscriber to until it shit the bed – wanted JS from some 25 domains (many of which were Amazon ad related). I also have NoScript on Firefox on my Pixel.
Firefox, uBO and NoScript are the floor for passable internet hygiene to me.
Yeah, it’s getting addicting! I just found so much JS that is totally unneeded to watch Paramount+:
What the hell is all this crap? Man… so much tracking going on. All the
DEFAULTs are blocked and the TV I’m watching still loads perfectly fine. And if you try to go to thestepcattle.comone out of pure curiosity, uBlock warns you against it, yet robots prevent any info on it from appearing in search engines… capitalist bastards…Odd … stepcattle doesn’t sound at all like the sort of thing involving jackboots and train cars.
Shit the bed? Do you mean when Jeff Bezos (amazon cto) bought the place?
https://piefed.social/ is 99% functional with noscript, if you’re into that. I have JS disabled while posting this comment.
Wow, incredible! Thanks, I had no idea.
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Yeah. It’s bad out there.
Used it for over a decade, finally stopped and am just using Ublock now, it’s so nice not having to open the menu for every new website to find the scripts that need allowed to make the site work.
I run ublock, with some custom additions. It breaks less stuff
Are you willing to share what any of these “custom additions” means?
In the extension settings you can add more filters. I’ve made a few extra
Use uMatrix and see more sewage
Umatrix was dead, I thought…but yeah, matrix is wayyyyy easier to understand.
You have to use ublock origin in advanced mode and you can kinda get umatrix
according to gorhill, it’s not as much dead as “done”. idk if that means it still works though
noscript xul version was the best back in the day :(
Bookmarking this! For everyone who posted, thank you!
