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Comment by pmontra

9 hours ago

I more or less use those addons (uMatrix instead of NoScript) plus uBlock Origin. uMatrix doesn't load a large number of JS files. An example from an ecommerce site I'm browsing right now: the site is functional (at least in browsing mode) without the scripts from

    bigcommerce.com
    classyschema.org
    doofinder.com
    elfsightcdn.com
    google.com
    grit.software
    gstatic.com
    hexgator.com
    klarna.com
    skeepers.io
    criteo.com
    googletagmanager.com

It needs only the JS from the first party domain. So they can track me from there but all the other guys don't know about me, unless they buy data from the first party. At least they have to do more work.

I also don't get advertising in any form, maybe because I don't have ecommerce apps on my phone and I block a lot of things with Blockada, but that's another story.

I don’t really mind first party telemetry. I’m already interacting with the sites, so they can build a nice profile if they want too. But my pet peeves are loads of non functional JS and not having an html render for web content for a non app website.