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by rakoo 2035 days ago
Another user here, and things weren't so smooth. Everytime you reach a new website you'll need to change rules and reload it. It's ok if you're always going to the same sites, but if you always discover new places (and I believe HN participates in that) it's a constant weight to lift. Always useful, but still not natural IME.
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dylan604 2035 days ago
It gets a lot easier if you only allow self-hosted JS. Block any JS loaded from a domain other than the one you are actually visiting. If the site I am visiting cannot function properly from self-hosted JS, then I move right along. It has to be a webiste I'm really interested in for me to even consider allowing 3rd party JS.
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smittywerben 2035 days ago
I've been whitelisting JavaScript since No-Script was new. I've used uMatrix recently but with it's end-of-development[0] I am considering switching back. I grew tired of having some shitty virus dropped to %appdata% for the N-th time loading a web page, exempli gratia [1]

It's gotten a lot more annoying the last several years with 5mb webpages. Backing up the whitelist saves a lot of time.

For perspective, I use 4 separate profiles (--user-data-dir) listed in descending order of how annoying they are for me to use.

1). School browser: Chrome + uBlock origin

2). Shopping/low security (when the payment processor is an iFrame and I don't want to refresh...): Firefox + uBlock origin + CanvasBlocker

3). General browsing like browsing Google or YouTube: Chrome + uBlock Origin + uMatrix

4). VPN browser: Chrome + uBlock origin + uMatrix + CookieAutoDelete + VPN extension

I've gone from 2 browsers (Firefox + IE6) to 4 browsers (Firefox, Chrome1, Chrome2, Chrome3). By 2030 I'll be running 16 browsers in a virtual machine on a remote server that I connect to with my browser browser.

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/20/umatrix-development-has-en...

[1] http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=368230 (2006)

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