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
