NoScript chrome extension

Humbly stating I provide super geek services, I red/blue team, audit and certify HIPAA/HITECH, PCI-DSS 3.2, and SOC II type2. I use three tracker/adblockers. Ublock origin, NoScript, and uMatrix. Ublock doesn't provide a clear interface for exactly what blocking is occurring in the background, while it does provide an interface to show you what sites were pinged, I frequently find I am required to disable it, before the functionality of a website works correctly. No Script is much more simple and fluid, I would recommend for the intermediate tech savvy, you can quickly trust a single tab, or you can "temp trust, always trust, or never trust" each website that the current one connects to such as ad servers and content delivery networks. If set the always temp trust the site you go to, and are willing to toggle a few permissions, you can lock in your choices and export/import/sync with browsers. Import and exports are not cross browser compatible, but are if using same framework (Chrome to MSEdge / EpicPrivacy / Adblock / (Opera / OperaGX are CHINESE OWNED) and Firefox to Firefox_Focus / Brave / TOR_Preconfigured / Waterfox). uMatrix has similar export features and is more fine grained and configurable per-site and domain. Offers ability to use the highest rate block list should you choose to, this is for the more technically savvy who seek fine grain control, all things considered, if you are only going to use one, this is the one I take the time to configure the way I like and it always puts the "ad site / bad sites blocked at the bottom. It also has a greater visibility into what is happening and a much greater fine grained control.

Best extension I use it for years. Should come with every browser as feature. Love it and recommend highly.

I've been using NoScript (NS) for years, I highly recommend it, and it's my first choice after experimenting with some of the other choices. I'm unaware of anything else that provides the level of control over website's scripts that NS does. Other extensions will require you to disable part or all of the protection to make a website they broke start working correctly because they lack this fine-tuning feature. If you're tired of the inability to selectively block "partnered" websites to make the website you want or need to visit work without potentially exposing yourself to attacks, THIS IS THE BEST I KNOW OF, and I know some security experts who also use it even though they'll officially recommend uBlock Origin because of their employers and because this product isn't for amateurs. Beginner users will find it challenging because it gives you control over EVERY website connected to the one you visit. If you are not an advanced user, you will have to learn how to use NoScript's customizable script-blocking features, and be wary of websites that are connected to the website you're visiting in order to make good decisions. Learning this will give you much better control over how the extension functions with each website and it will remember the settings no matter which webpage you go to. Unlike Malwarebytes Browser Guard (MBBG), Ghostery (G), Disconnect (D), uBlock Origin (uO), Brave's built-in script blocking (BP) and Blur (B), NS gives you full control over how NS deals with each webset and even sub-pages. I found that these other products caused some sites to break but provided no way to give access for other websites embedded in the broken one. For example, cloudfront.com is an important website, which shouldn't be blocked, that companies use to protect their servers from DDOS and other attacks, but they also offer tracking services under a similar name, and that should be blocked. When Brave breaks websites (and it does it fairly regularly using the default settings), I have to turn it off for the site and rely on MBBG and NS to catch the bad stuff. With NS, I never have to turn off some of NS's major security categories, nor do I have to turn off all protections, whereas most of these products require one or the other so I can use a site I know is safe. WARNING: avoid granting access for websites for pirated software, cracking, hacking, phreaking, phishing, stolen movies and videos, anything else illegal, and many porn sites as a lot of them are loaded with malware or are connected to other sites that have malware scripts that will attack and invade your computer. Turning off protection for ANYTHING on these websites invites such attacks, but will often be required if you want the website to work, so just don't try unless you're running a VM (if you don't understand, do NOT try those sites) and anti-malware software. If you have problems with NS behaving incorrectly, which rarely happens, you can go to the creator's forum website to report problems and get support: forums.informaction.com. Mr. Giorgio Maone (from Italy) is the creator and he's very nice. Problems that DO occur are usually because of changes to the way browsers function that Mr. Maone has no control over, which is what caused the big problem last year when several browsers caused NS to break. If you have trouble with a website, click on the NoScript icon at the top right of your browser window. If it's not showing, you'll have to open up the extensions controls (in Chromium browsers, click on the puzzle piece or similar next to the extensions' icons, and then click on the push pin so it'll be shown) by left-clicking on it. You'll see a list of all the websites involved with the website you're visiting. To the left of each website are 5 icons: default, temporarily trusted, trusted, untrusted (blocked) and custom. Click on the 2nd or 3rd from left, depending on how sure you are that you can trust that site. WARNING: If you know it's a site full of malware, such as PortableTurk.com and PornHub.com, do NOT trust anything, so mark those sites as untrusted. Settings you change for the website you're visiting will be applied to ALL websites you visit, unless you customize the settings as local (for a specific site only) instead of global (for all sites visited). Once you're done, press the refresh button in NS or your browser so it'll reload. Keep carefully trusting sites until functionality is restored. If trusting a site doesn't help, then set it back to the default. Sites with words like "click", "marketing", "tracking", "sales", "tag" and so on should almost never be trusted!!! When in doubt, click on a questionable site listed by NS and it'll bring up a new page with links you can follow to sites that will give you more info. Note that when you change settings for some sites listed, this may cause more or fewer sites to be listed, so don't be alarmed - this is why you use temp. trusted when you're not sure.