Ask HN: NoScript worth it?

1 pointsTJensen17y ago1 comments

So I've run NoScript for a long time. On the one hand, I like having control of who gets to send data around. On the other hand, it can be obnoxious reloading pages regularly.

I don't believe websites should have to degrade nicely (though it is nice). In today's world, it NoScript still worth it?

The biggest benefit I see if that I can keep off of some of the tracking/analytics crap. Thoughts?

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thristian17y ago

I used NoScript for a while in the 'temporarily allow the current site' mode, which I felt was a reasonable compromise between functionality and security.

However, there were still times I had to mess around to get certain web-pages to work, Firefox has a pretty good track-record with security, and the common annoyances on today's web (such as pop-ups and analytics code) are neatly blocked by AdBlockPlus or Firefox itself.

The recent furore about NoScript messing around with AdBlockPlus was the final straw - I removed NoScript, and I haven't looked back.

This wasn't very confidence-inspiring, either: http://adblockplus.org/blog/analyzing-huge-piles-of-code

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