On 01/13/2016 05:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > What of the poor souls who, for whatever reason, can't use NoScript? > > What about those who are so frustrated with trying to get sites to work that > they just Allow All On This Page? I've seen websites that rely on anything > up to forty or fifty externally hosted scripts just to get basic > functionality. (I stopped counting after a while and just kept > clicking "Temporarily Allow...") You have external scripts calling out to > external scripts from completely different domains, each more and more > dodgy-looking than the last. And that's just the "legitimate" (for some > definition of) scripts.
I seriously doubt there are any web pages that rely on 40 or 50 external scripts for *basic* functionality. But I have seen pages that load dozens of external scripts for tracking, ad, and other purposes. With Ghostery I disable almost all of them and guess what, the pages load faster and work just fine. I think some companies must think, hey if one analytics site is good, then 10 are better! I've seen pages that refused to load because some analytic script's hosting server was not responding. I highly recommend everyone run Ghostery and turn off nearly all external scripts. Doesn't usually affect the page's function itself. If anything it's educational to see how many external scripts sites use these days. No wonder we have so many security issues. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list