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I don’t ever install NoScript on family/friend devices. It just breaks their experience. I have knowledgeable coworkers that won’t use it because it’s not worth the hassle for them.

So I agree it is an anti-pattern for typical use cases.

But if you’re trying to get the most out of old hardware, it will make some websites more usable.

That's the point, a _website_ should mostly be text,css and images and that works 100% fine with NoScript out of the box.

My pattern is basically browsing the wild net with FF/Noscript and use Chrome for "apps" (gmail,sheets,etc) that i feel have a reason to use JS.

It mainly disincentivizes using scummy sites the fetch JavaScript from 20 domains.

Sites that just fetch JavaScript from their own domain, not as much.