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Does Noscript make these extensions unnecessary?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:08 pm
by badger
Does Noscript do the same thing as these and can I get rid of them?
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Advertising Cookie Opt-out
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin
Ghostery
Re: Does Noscript make these extensions unnecessary?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:30 pm
by barbaz
NoScript is a security tool, not a privacy tool. The *only* way in which NS overlaps with any of those is that if you don't (Temp-)Allow google-analytics.com then it completely blocks the google analytics tracking. (
https://noscript.net/changelog#2.6.5.8)
So I'd say that the google analytics addon is redundant but the rest are not.
Re: Does Noscript make these extensions unnecessary?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:41 pm
by badger
OK thanks.
Re: Does Noscript make these extensions unnecessary?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 10:31 pm
by Thrawn
Be careful with Ghostery, though; it has a history of not coexisting peacefully with NoScript.