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Been using Noscript in Firefox for years now.

Sometimes the number of domains that gets loaded in the background on certain sites is mind numbing.



Personally I use Ghostery on Chrome right now but with this development by Mozilla, I'm inclined to switch. Feels good to use a browser with no corporate interests, and a simple feature to stop abuse of cookies by ~70% is just crazy. Too crazy to not be a built-in browser feature. Maybe I'm disrupting how news sites intend to work, but they're disrupting how the web was intended to work.

Anyway, ... I got sidetracked. I meant to say that what's even "funnier" is that if I disable Ghostery for some domain temporarily, the number of trackers usually skyrocket even further, since now the scripts get to run more scripts.

Yes, it's insane and honestly out of control.


Yep, i have noticed those "matryoshka" scripts from time to time. Enabling one script domain in Noscript result in 2+ more waiting to be enabled after page reload.

And sometimes you have to dig 3+ layers into the nesting to get the site to function at all...




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