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Any good alternatives for NoScript?

If you just want to block javascript and you use Chrome, you can use the dev tools. Open dev tools, click the three-bullets menu icon, click settings, then in General click Disable Javascript. You don't get a whitelist, but it's something.

Actually you can whitelist. Right click the lock next to the url you want to whitelist, you'll see all KINDS of things to allow or block.

Usually, people suggest uMatrix. But it's a lot more than just NoScript and probably takes longer to make it work the way you want. In general, it gives you total control what your browser is doing.

uMatrix is amazing, but does takes more time to set up. It pays off though - page load times and page sizes are on average ~50% less.

uMatrix looks heavy duty but effective. I'd never heard of it before--it looks like it could replace my user-string randomizer extension as well as Noscript and uBlock, which makes it worth a strong look. I've already found some tutorials that make it look a little less intimidating. An upvote didn't seem like enough of a thank you for posting.

ScriptSafe for Chrome. DisConnect or Ghostery maybe? Not quite the same, but they do break web pages just as well as NoScript. :)

I'm hoping someone else posts some reasonably user-friendly alternatives. Adblockers can be manageable for technically less-savvy users, but I'd never have considered putting NoScript or even Disconnect on my parents' computers for fear of how often I'd get help desk calls from them.

For what most people use NoScript a simple uBlock should already do the job.

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