Re:NoScript is harmful and promotes malware
by pmontra on Monday October 03, 2016 @03:06AM
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I'm using NoScript and I temporarily enable JS on sites.
Usually sites work well enough by enabling 1st party JS and sometimes not even all of them. I lose all the code from tracking and monitoring services, which I really don't care about. I gain a much faster browsing experience.
Then there are sites with CDNs, and I have to enable them to see some content. Or Disqus comments, must enable to read them. Then there are some sites that are like a puzzle and I can't understand what to enable. I either give up (lose-lose) or read them in a browser I use for that kind of sites (I lose, they win). Then there are sites with content embedded in the JavaScript (I really mean in the script, not loaded by the script) or in some invisible element that only JS can make visible. Forbes is one of them and the one I hate most. I did a short script to deobfuscate the content at a Forbes URL and display it in a brower.
By using NoScript I appreciate how useless is JavaScript on some sites: there is no reason not to serve basic content (text and most of the images) directly and use JS only to enhance it. Examples: to add comments, to zoom into images, to load the next article - which has it's own URL anyway.
Usually sites work well enough by enabling 1st party JS and sometimes not even all of them. I lose all the code from tracking and monitoring services, which I really don't care about. I gain a much faster browsing experience.
Then there are sites with CDNs, and I have to enable them to see some content. Or Disqus comments, must enable to read them. Then there are some sites that are like a puzzle and I can't understand what to enable. I either give up (lose-lose) or read them in a browser I use for that kind of sites (I lose, they win). Then there are sites with content embedded in the JavaScript (I really mean in the script, not loaded by the script) or in some invisible element that only JS can make visible. Forbes is one of them and the one I hate most. I did a short script to deobfuscate the content at a Forbes URL and display it in a brower.
By using NoScript I appreciate how useless is JavaScript on some sites: there is no reason not to serve basic content (text and most of the images) directly and use JS only to enhance it. Examples: to add comments, to zoom into images, to load the next article - which has it's own URL anyway.