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I have been using noscript for years - thank you very much.

I noticed a sticky for "SOME SITES YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO ALLOW" last updated about a year ago.

Reading some of the comments there, some have suggested a blacklist but there were reservations expressed for that.

When I see a huge list of script attempts, I often wonder what each does and try to guess whether of not each is required for site functionality or are optional, tracking crap.

Might I suggest instead of a hard blacklist a colorcoded list? or maybe some mouseover info blurb?

Idea would be to provide an advisory based on community research and input for know invasive, predatory sites, known malicious sites etc.. and color code them or by some other method provide some information on TLDs that would help users make a decision on whether or not to allow scripts or get sent to the "untrusted" hole.

You can already middle-click (or shift-click if you don't have a standard mouse) on NS menu items to get the info you want on each of the sites listed. You can even customize the site that provides the info by modifying noscript.siteInfoProvider in about:config.

Personally, I use Adblock Plus as a guideline: if a site is being explicitly filtered there it goes straight to Untrusted in NS.

There was also an interesting suggestion a while ago about automatically importing blacklist entries from a custom hosts file. Conceptually I think this is not a bad idea, but would probably require too much platform-specific code.