Thanks - I haven’t seen NoScript before - will give it a try.
It works very very well, and because of this there is a slight learning curve, because it blocks ALL SCRIPTS by default and lists them. but it is not an ad blocker, I use it along with Ghostery ad blocker and they work well together.
But on some pages you have to go turn on the element in the list blocking certain things like the link buttons or java. But it is usually just the top item in the list which would be the site domain address.
But I will tell you what, it is well worth the very minimal extra effort. It is going to scare you how many hidden tracker and fingerprint scripts there really are on some sites. I have hit some that had over a hundred of these in place.
The NoScript will let you go turn on only what you absolutely need while leaving all the rest blocked. :)