[josteink]

When I have see that a webpage has 20 or more scripts attached to it from domains differing from the one website I am visiting, I do by default assume they are tracking scripts from advertisers or facebook or similar ilk.

If a website needs scripts, I expect the website to serve it from a domain which belongs to it. For most sites I visit there are at least 30, sometimes 50 scripts from various sites and domains trying to track me, slowing down my browsing experience, and sucking up my systems ram.

Disabling those causes massive speed-ups. Plus it protects my privacy.

Install ScriptNo in Chrome (or similar for Firefox). You will be shocked by the difference. And you will be shocked by the massive script-abuse currently on the net.

And no, I will not wade through that long list for each and every page I visit, to whitelist whatever CDN you have decided to put in the same trustworthyness-group as doubleclick.net.

If your site breaks with those scripts blocked, I leave.

[MatthewPhillips]

This is what you're after: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

Not an insult, by the way, Gopher is awesome. Today the Web is an applications platform and that is not going to be reversed.

[freehunter]

Install ScriptNo in Chrome (or similar for Firefox). You will be shocked by the difference.

Yes, I would be shocked to be browsing the web circa 1995. Which is why I use a modern browser that supports modern technologies. I also use Ghostery with a whitelist to block tracking. That way, sites work like they should and I can browse this decade's Internet without having to go on forums and let everyone know I'm important and I'm special and every web app should work on Lynx because I said so.

[josteink]

My point was not that all scripts are evil, but if you want me to trust your site, then dont require me to trust 50 domains I do not know for a minescule 10ms potential performance improvement.

I find that a perfectly reasonable attitude.