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When I wakeup my PC (W7P-64 FF10) from hibernation I notice there are a large number of tabs opened with empty pages (during wakeup?) starting with "https://plusone.google.com..." and some reference to a site from my iGoogle startpage. The tile of this site in my iGoogle page has a "like" button on it, I think since I switched to the new beta-look. The button references "javascript.void" . I removed the tile from my startpage to find out another tile now is having these buttons (the others are not, but probably will have when I remove this one) tried if I could find some settings in the tile or startpage to turn this "feature" off to no avail. If I actually click on the plus-feature I get a popup/new window asking me to update my profile to join the program (Google+).
Now I try to find a blacklist feature or some other setting in Noscript to prevent this from happening. Could not find it. As Google is notorious in not answering to these kind of problems and I don't think it will resolved before they make the new look mandatory I post this here.

UPDATE: I found out that this +1 feature is coupled to rss/atom posts "headline + introductory text" and that you can set each tile to show only headlines. Of course this does not make the noted behavior acceptable.

I don't use any of the services described, and the kind of behavior you describe is exactly why I don't.

Therefore, not speaking with full knowledge, but what about removing all Google entries from the whitelist, and only temp-allowing them when you want to use each service? If this is being done through scripting, that might at least stop the annoyance. And perhaps Creating Site-Specific Permissions via ABE could be used to create some rules for when to allow these.

The scripting could be coming through RSS feeds. And to think that someone once asked me why I don't use RSS .... ... of course, disabling those solves your problem too, apparently. Might be the easiest.

TX for the prompt suggestion, I fear that without exact instructions it's too much for me . I dont see an alternative to RSS, and iGoogle used to be a nice interface, so I will see if my "update" helps and otherwise wait for version 3 where I can blacklist.

victor50 wrote:starting with "https://plusone.google.com..."

Would one of those scripts happen to be apis.google.com/js/plusone.js? Per the Listing of script sources for which surrogates are provided, NoScript will run a Surrogate Script, or "fake" script in its place, so you should be able to Forbid that one from running.

I think since I switched to the new beta-look.

Have you tried switching back to the old look?

Now I try to find a blacklist feature or some other setting in Noscript to prevent this from happening..... <snip>... and otherwise wait for version 3 where I can blacklist.

You can blacklist now.

Open NoScript Menu > Tools > Options > Whitelist. You can select and delete one at a time, or hold down Ctrl and select multiple, then click "Remove selected sites". Remove all related to Google. When done, click OK.

Now, when you actually wish to use these services, some things won't work. Open the NS menu again. Scripts marked in blue with choice to "Allow" or "Temporarily allow" are now being blocked. Make a note of them. (You can right-click them, which copies them, and paste to a text doc.) Then "temporarily allow" (or "TA", as we say here in shorthand) one at a time to see which one(s) is needed for which site. Or "Temporarily allow all this page", then "Forbid" them one by one, to see which ones break which pages. You can re-allow if needed, by pointing to "Untrusted" in the menu, and TA those that may have been needed. Note these also, along with the sites.

When you know which scripts need to run at which pages, we'll write you a rule to do that automatically for you. Any that aren't necessary at all can be left in an un-allowed state, which means, blocked by default, but if you want them not to appear in the menu, click "Forbid" on that script, and it will automatically be added to the Untrusted list. It won't show in the menu at all, except under the Untrusted sub-menu.

I hope this is more helpful.

TX again for your very instructive help. I fear I haven't got the time to try this out right now and my "update" turning on only headlines seems to work. So I'll just wait a bit and see if Google fixes it and/or V3 comes up with possibilities to do this in an easy way.

victor50 wrote:TX again for your very instructive help. I fear I haven't got the time to try this out right now and my "update" turning on only headlines seems to work. So I'll just wait a bit and see if Google fixes it and/or V3 comes up with possibilities to do this in an easy way.

OK, I understand that changing the feeds from "headlines+text" to "headlines" fixes the issue, and that's good enough for you for now, correct?

Will mark this as closed by the original poster, and if you ever have time to fine-tune the script permissions, the NoScript Quick Start Guide and NoScript FAQ are great places to start getting max value from NoScript. Cheers.