This whole thread became a big "throw the baby out with the bathwater". Of course there is a long way to a secure web (if that is ever achievable), but disabling javascript is just a lazy alternative, creating a lot more nuisance than whatever damage is being done via javascript lately.

OTOH the "chain of trust" idea looks promising. And increases the responsibility on the visited website, because if it wants third party content to run javascript it'll have to host it itself.