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Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam by tombrossman on Monday August 22, 2016 @05:53PM (#12339720)
This topic comes up a lot on HN and my response is always the same. Try NoScript again. Give it a day or two and whitelist the sites you use a lot and trust. You will have a stunningly faster browsing experience and the number of sites that don't work will be surprisingly small.

We have passed a tipping point where all the annoying bullshit that depends on JavaScript to function far outnumbers the random websites that NoScript breaks. LONG time user of it and I just don't have much trouble browsing. It makes the web insanely fast and eliminates most annoyances.

Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam by TeMPOraL on Monday August 22, 2016 @06:26PM (#12339896)
Hear, hear.

I've been using uMatrix for some time (I'm a control freak, I guess) and I support this - you end up whitelisting a few sites here and there (or even just some aspects of those sites, in case of uMatrix), and the Internet becomes overall a much better (and faster) place. The amount of useless JS bloat on-line is staggering, and it hurts me that developers are actually defending this practice. Engineers should know better.

Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam by zer0gravity on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:41AM (#12341837)
Just installed NoScript. Thank you!