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Comment by pluc

8 months ago

It really isn't. I've been blocking all JavaScript for years now, selectively allowing what is essential for sites to run or using a private session to allow more/investigate/discover. Most sites work fine without their 30 JS sources, just allowing what is hosted on their own domain. It takes a little effort, but it's a fair price to pay to have a sane Internet.

The thing is - with everything - it's never easy to have strong principles. If it were, everyone would do it.

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roywiggins  8 months ago

It's certainly not that bad if you have uMatrix to do it with, but I haven't found a reasonable way to do it on mobile. uMatrix does work on Firefox Mobile but the UI is only semi functional.

  • 1vuio0pswjnm7  8 months ago

    uMatrix is fully-functional on Nightly.

    Using Firefox Add-Ons on a "smartphone" sucks because one has to access every Add-On interface via an Extensions menu.

    In that sense _all_ Add-Ons are only semi-functional.

    I use multiple layers: uMatrix + NetGuard + Nebulo "DNS Rules", at the least. Thus I have at least three opportunities where I can block lookups for and requests to Google domains.

  • bornfreddy  8 months ago

    Not quite the same (I love uMatrix UI), but advanced mode in uBO is similar. It lacks filtering by data type (css, js, images, fonts,...) per domain, but it does resolve domains to their primary domain, revealing where they are hosted. A huge kudos to gorhill for both of these!

  • baobun  8 months ago

    NoScript + uBO is all right.

    • pluc  8 months ago

      Yup that's what I use as well. With whatever the name of the extension that makes allowing cookies a whitelist thing too, and PrivacyBadger/Decentraleyes.

      Also, deleting everything when Firefox closes. It's a little annoying to re-login to everything every day, but again, they are banking on this inconvenience to fuck you over and I refuse to let them win. It becomes part of the routine easily enough.

dylan604  8 months ago

That’s my default as well. Self hosted/1st party scripts can load, but 3rd party scripts are blocked. The vast majority of sites work this way. If a site doesn’t work because they must have a 3rd party script to work, I tend to just close the tab. I really don’t feel like it has caused me to miss anything. There’s usually 8 other sites with the same data in a slightly less hostile site

palata  8 months ago

Do you selectively enable JavaScript for the whole site, or is there a way with uBO to only enable subparts of it?