News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client. Parent comment

Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by hvidgaard on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:14AM (#11166431)
> we can't visit a website today without calls to a billion external domains

NoScript really brings this into visibility. I don't mind the domain running scripts. But the 10+ other domains that needs to run a script - sigh. My wife keeps asking my why I put up with it - it's quite simple; I decide if the page I'm about to visit is worth all the extra crap running and tracking me.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by stormbeta on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:30AM (#11167954)
Personally I prefer uMatrix - it lets you enable specific things across domains instead of a binary allow/deny, and allows global versus per-domain or per-subdomain rules; e.g. I might be fine with one site collecting metrics but not globally.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by dandelion_lover on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:32AM (#11166527)
NoScript does not show everything. RequestPolicy opens up a lot more.
[ Parent | on HN ]