Redirect Ignore preference

[Odin99]

From https://noscript.net/features#options:

noscript.jsredirectIgnore - defaults to false, if true disables searching and displaying JavaScript links in non-whitelisted pages which do not contain any regular link, like www.fordvehicles.com.

What exactly does this mean?? Does it means that I should keep the preference at true, but it would by itself change to false when appropriate [and would later by itself change back]? What are the implications if I just change it to false?

[barbaz]

That pref shouldn't be getting flipped automatically. So the first question should be, how/why did yours get set to true?

As for what that pref does, see e.g. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21753

[Odin99]

I don't know how/why the about.config preference was changed to true, or indeed if it was ever changed to true. I'm just trying to understand the quoted sentence in NoScript's documentation.

Barbaz, thank you for responding, but I can't find the answer to my question either in your response above or in the link to which you refer me. Did you send me to the wrong link in error? If not, I'm afraid I need a more direct answer.

[barbaz]

I'm not completely sure on the details, but I think it's something like this: In JS-disabled pages with no visible links, it tries to make the links visible so that navigation on the site is still possible.

EDIT
Quoting Giorgio -

If that preference is set to false (default), whenever an untrusted page is loaded NoScript checks if usable links are present, and if there's no link it tries to "infer" JavaScript links/redirections from the JavaScript sources of the page, displaying them as regular links.
This is an usability feature which is especially helpful on dummy home pages (e.g. those which contains just a JavaScript redirection or a Flash intro) to avoid allowing JavaScript just to enter the site.