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But if I whitelist the whole site those pixels and buttons are also enabled, correct? Or how to disable those and keep website functionality? It doesn’t work with either browser I have but I may change that.
You don’t have to whitelist the whole site at once. Most sites break up their scripts into multiple categories that come from different servers, and noscript lets you pick and choose which of those to block.
You can usually get most of the site’s core functionality working while still blocking most of the ads and trackers and junk.
That’d be awesome. Do you know the particular scripts used by m_ta (pixels and button), r_ddit, twitler, etc? Not just for my future reference, but everyone’s? No is ok, I just thought I’d ask, just in case.
Thanks so much for your time and patience to reply several times.
Generally, it’s not hard to figure out – the options noscript gives you for disabling them are usually clearly labeled. Cloudflare’s tracking shows up as “Cloudflare Analytics”, for example – an easy and obvious one to leave on the ‘blocked’ list.
Just give it a whirl and see how it goes. Install the browser extension, and whenever you visit a site that doesn’t work, click on the little noscript button and try changing important-looking scripts from ‘blocked’ to ‘temporarily allowed’. If doing that fixes the site’s functionality and you’ll be using that site a lot, you can then change that to ‘allowed’ and have it permanently whitelisted, and it will work every time you go back. (Fair warning, though: some sites have a very long list of different scripts, and it can sometimes be difficult to figure out which ones are required for site functionality and which aren’t. But a little trial and error will always work it out eventually. Often, it’s actually pretty obvious. Core functionality scripts are often named directly after the site you’re trying to use while all the ads and tracking and shit has different names.)
But if I whitelist the whole site those pixels and buttons are also enabled, correct? Or how to disable those and keep website functionality? It doesn’t work with either browser I have but I may change that.
You don’t have to whitelist the whole site at once. Most sites break up their scripts into multiple categories that come from different servers, and noscript lets you pick and choose which of those to block.
You can usually get most of the site’s core functionality working while still blocking most of the ads and trackers and junk.
That’d be awesome. Do you know the particular scripts used by m_ta (pixels and button), r_ddit, twitler, etc? Not just for my future reference, but everyone’s? No is ok, I just thought I’d ask, just in case.
Thanks so much for your time and patience to reply several times.
Generally, it’s not hard to figure out – the options noscript gives you for disabling them are usually clearly labeled. Cloudflare’s tracking shows up as “Cloudflare Analytics”, for example – an easy and obvious one to leave on the ‘blocked’ list.
Just give it a whirl and see how it goes. Install the browser extension, and whenever you visit a site that doesn’t work, click on the little noscript button and try changing important-looking scripts from ‘blocked’ to ‘temporarily allowed’. If doing that fixes the site’s functionality and you’ll be using that site a lot, you can then change that to ‘allowed’ and have it permanently whitelisted, and it will work every time you go back. (Fair warning, though: some sites have a very long list of different scripts, and it can sometimes be difficult to figure out which ones are required for site functionality and which aren’t. But a little trial and error will always work it out eventually. Often, it’s actually pretty obvious. Core functionality scripts are often named directly after the site you’re trying to use while all the ads and tracking and shit has different names.)
Thanks so much, for everyone who hasn’t used it or forgotten.