The website's other articles are spammy conspiracy crud anyway.
it does for those concerned with their privacy - i recommend to my readers to disable JS globally and allow it per-host where needed
as for cosmetic filters, processing them consumes more CPU
also these are suggested settings based on my experience and tailored to fit the Firefox config guides i wrote - i didn't state they were better than everyone elses
provide evidence where i'm wrong and i'll be happy to correct, but rubber-stamping someones content as "spammy", whatever that means, is lazy