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I've tried it a few times for couple of weeks at a time, and it is really difficult. I inevitably enable scripts after a few weeks.

It's just so tedious to do by hand, although it's nice to browse without jarring changes to the page as you load.

It would be great if there were some kind of community powered block list that adhered to some kind of standard. Probably easier said than done

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uBlock Origin makes this pretty easy actually. You just have to enable the "I am an advanced user" checkbox in it's settings and it turns into a more user friendly NoScript, with an easy way to save settings for specific sites that require third party scripts or frames to function.

As the creator himself says, uBlock Origin is not just an ad blocker, it's a wide spectrum blocker.

I just have a plug-in that allows to disable us for a specific website

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