On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 21:45, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>  I did, but only because I'm a sometime Wikipedian and thus have the
>>> domains whitelisted so all the fancy tools work.  That's the biggest
>>> problem with script blocking -- there are useful sites that usefully
>>> use scripts.
>>
>> Only if you permanently, as opposed to temporarily, whitelist them.
>
>  So, I'm to whitelist the site every time I visit it.  How exactly
> does that improve my security?

If the site has been hacked, I can see what sites they're calling, and
between NoScript and Rquest Policy I've found a few sites that had
unexpected content that didn't get executed.

Kurt

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