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Using NoScript to selectively block JavaScript across all websites has opened my eyes to the sewers we wade through online (midwest.social)

submitted 1 week ago by joshchandra@midwest.social to c/foss@beehaw.org

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This comment encouraging me to try out NoScript Security Suite (Firefox) changed my life. googletagmanager is used everywhere!

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[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's getting addicting! I just found so much JS that is totally unneeded to watch Paramount+:

What the hell is all this crap? Man... so much tracking going on. All the DEFAULTs are blocked and the TV I'm watching still loads perfectly fine. And if you try to go to the stepcattle.com one out of pure curiosity, uBlock warns you against it, yet robots prevent any info on it from appearing in search engines... capitalist bastards...

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

Odd ... stepcattle doesn't sound at all like the sort of thing involving jackboots and train cars.