dr_st wrote on Yesterday, 09:44:
My experience with Noscript (which was many years ago, I admit) was that it breaks the web badly, because many websites rely on scripts to do the things you actually want them to do. Whitelisting each site is painful.
I briefly used a different addon called Yesscript, which allowed me to easily block scripts on a handful of broken websites.
From reading on Ghostery it seems to be another flavor of ad/tracker blocker. How does it differ from uBlock/ABP?
Yeah, noscript definitely break some sites, but being able to stop scripts from running is a big plus for security (or even just selecting which scripts to run, as most of the time only a subset is needed).
Ghostery I used to block of trackers (I know ublock has some function for that as well). Back when I looked into it (many years ago), ghostey could do stuff the other plugins couldn't, like blocking requests to download items instead of just stopping them from showing up (like on adblock). There's also good control of cookies, not just block/allow.
On my last web browser update I skipped ghostery, figured I'd give browsing a try without it, we'll see how that pans out...
