“... use Ghostery ad blocker and have no pop ups and nothing to complain about.”
I go much farther than that. I use NoScript and RequestPolicy, in a dedicated browser as a dedicated user (on Linux, but works on Windows too, and probably MacOS).
NoScript allows you to control exactly what JavaScript can be run: I set it to disallow everything, which blocks popups and various funny-business, so I can visit random websites with much less danger. Also, sometimes blocking JS can bypass JS-implemented gate-keeping.
This works fine with current FR because FR doesn’t need any JS to read or post. (Or worse yet, JS not locally hosted, which so many sites use).
RequestPolicy gives you the capability to control which Web domains you can visit. But unlike add-ons like Ublock, RequestPolicy has you specify which domains are *allowed* rather than which are blocked. This means that unknown domains are blocked by default rather than allowed by default. (I think that Default Deny is now considered the proper principle for computer security as well as for physical security.)
I have my RequestPolicy set to allow only a few trusted domains such as DuckDuckGo, Google, ... and of course FR. (This means that linked images don’t necessarily automatically display, but even on FR, a surprisingly low percentage contribute much to the posting.
Unfortunately, RequestPolicy requires an old version of Firefox to run, since Firefox adopted much of the internal structure of Google’s Chromium some years ago. (This also has constrained what recent NoScript versions can do.)
You are much more technically astute than I.
But it sounds like you get it close to perfect.
At my house it is “close enough for government work... and no more.”
Lol
You are much more technically astute than I.
But it sounds like you get it close to perfect.
At my house it is “close enough for government work... and no more.”
Lol
P.S. Concerning NoScript
Modern Websites make heavy use of JavaScript. Some of it is hosted by domains other than the one being visited. Furthermore, the fact that HTTPS (i.e. encryption) has become pretty standard means that your computer is executing large amounts of code that can’t be analyzed for possible harmful effects each time it is received.
Didn’t they used to warn us not to download and run random software?
NoScript helps avoid such problems by allowing you to limit where JavaScript is allowed to come from.