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> The author described the modern web browsing experience to a tee. It's awful and one of the reasons my web browsing is limited to very few sites and I'm careful on what I click on.

NoScript is pretty useful for this. If a website doesn't work without JavaScript, odds are very good the author's incentives are something other than to convey information, so the content is probably not worth consuming anyway.

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I used to use NoScript religiously, but since the move to `quantum` I couldn't seem to get it to work right. Either I couldn't understand the icon system or or was buggy. Has it improved since then?

Quantum deprecated the old method of Add-On development in favor of Web Extensions. NoScript didn't have a Web Extensions version initially and has been working out the transition ever since. But that was 2 years ago...

There was a hiccup during the Firefox WebExtension switch, but it has been working fine for a long time now. I even use it on mobile, which is a lifesaver.

I switched to uMatrix when NoScript wasn't working with Quantum yet. I think I like it better than NoScript now anyway, and have never gone back.

And in many cases (including this article), Firefox's Reader View will fix websites that don't work without JavaScript. As a bonus, it also removes all "design".

It's kind of shocking how often I use Reader View now, particularly on mobile. If stripping a page of all design elements is a feature, how is that design not intrinsically user-hostile?

I'll give that a try!

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