[Santosh83]

This used to be the case many years ago. But these days practically every site pulls in content from several other sites, sometimes dozens. Fine tuning noscript to get such a site to work without obscure breakage will take a long time of trial & error, reloading again & again. Now consider that you've to do this for every one of your regular sites.

Noscript is just too painful for people who want to just browse the web. Its the gentoo of browser extensions. People with massive time & patience can do it yes, but the rest of us are best served by uBlock & standard browser protections.

[zahlman]

> But these days practically every site pulls in content from several other sites, sometimes dozens.

They do, but as a long-time NoScript user I can tell you from personal experience that this content rarely does anything important, and leaving it out often improves your UX. Problems like you describe pop up... from time to time, for individual sites, maybe a few times a year, and definitely not on "regular sites".

[mjevans]

I have an entirely separate browser profile for when I absolutely need to use a site and just don't have the time to tinker around with script permissions.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Depending on how you've set up, you can also just use private browsing / incognito to drop extensions.

[JohnFen]

> But these days practically every site pulls in content from several other sites, sometimes dozens.

And excluding that content almost invariably improves the page.

[coldpie]

> Fine tuning noscript to get such a site to work without obscure breakage will take a long time of trial & error, reloading again & again. Now consider that you've to do this for every one of your regular sites.

No, not really. Usually just the top-level domain is enough. Very occasionally a site will have some other domain they serve from, and it's usually obvious which one to allowlist. It takes like, ten seconds, and you only need to do it once per domain if you make the allowlisting permanent. If you get really impatient, you can just allow all scripts for that tab and you're done.

It is some extra work, and I won't disagree if you think it's too much, but you're really overselling how much extra work it is.

[edoceo]

> the gentoo of browser extensions

I was already convinced, you don't need to keep selling it ;)

[pengaru]

Breaking such sprawling mess web sites to such a degree you give up and close the tab is a feature, not a bug.

[cess11]

I've used script blocker modules for many years and consistently only white list a few widely used package repos. This means I notice when a web site I frequent adds a new script source.

This ought to be the default in every common web browser, just as you should have to look at the data sharing "partners" and decide whether they're benign enough for your taste.