Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
by tunap on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:31AM
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I've been installing NoScript, and instructing how to use it, on "regular" users' browsers for years. The sad inevitability is I end up instructing most of them on how to enable "Allow scripts globally(Dangerous)" option to help quell the flood of phone calls concerning their "broken internets". Many just can't be bothered &/or don't care enough to learn. Free will can be such a bitch, sometimes.
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Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
by INTPenis on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:03AM
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The big problem with noscript, and this has already been mentioned on here, is that it requires a certain level of experience with the web to operate.
You almost have to be an experienced webdev to recognize which domains are necessary and which aren't.
But this is also why I emphasize that you can freely use the global whitelisting option and still be much safer than without noscript. Simply because the sites that will get you are often the sites that open unexpectedly. Unknown domains that you did not request.
Re:Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
by stinkytaco on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:18AM
(#11730359)
I'm at the point where I refer people to an ad-blocker and Disconnect. Not perfect, but a whole lot better than nothing.