On Sun, Jun 7, 2015, at 04:27 PM, Francis Gerund wrote:
Thank you.
Yes, temporarily allowing cnn.com in NoScript did get rid of the rectangles.
But try it youself, and then click the NoScript icon in the Firefox menu bar to count the still-blocked third-party revenue leeches cnn lets tag along on it's website. 11 by my count.
So much for privacy.
Remeber when the websites said to visitors, "what can we do for you?", not "what can we do you for?" . . .
Privacy issues aside, javascript on certain websites tends to slow my browser down to a crawl. Amazon.com, for instance, is impossibly sluggish when I whitelist it. It's crashed my DE before when I had more than a few tabs open. In terms of both privacy and performance, the third-party scripts and trackers really do slow down browsing. (The Amazon scripts aren't third party, they're just surprisingly slow...) As an aside, if anyone knows a fix for Amazon on Firefox, I'd appreciate a tip. I'm not sure if it's just my local setup. -- vixsomnis