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I recently installed NoScript 2.5.5 for Firefox 15.0.1, on a PC running Ubuntu 12.04 ("Precise").

It seems like a very good idea in principle, but I've decided I need to disable NoScript because it's simply too burdensome for me to go through a long list of potential problem sites and evaluate each one individually by hand before I can manage to convince NoScript to stop squawking about a given site.

I'm also using WoT 20120827, and it seems to me that it may make more sense to configure WoT to automatically block any site that is rated as poor / very poor / unsatisfactory (and use that as my protection instead of NoScript).

I realize using WoT this way might not protect me against everything NoScript watches out for -- and I might be willing to consider trying NoScript again if there were a way to make the tool automatically allow or block sites rated by WoT as extremely reliable or extremely unreliable -- thus leaving sites in the middle, so to speak, for me to evaluate by hand. Yes, I know I can check each site by hand to find its WoT rating, but my point is that I'm not willing to use a tool which offers this as the only way for me to check the trustworthiness of sites.

My position on this is not graven in stone, and I'm willing to consider reasoned, informed explanations of why I may be asking for something that sounds wise but really isn't.

Searching this forum would have shown that the idea has been discussed many times. Please check those discussions.

I spent a lot of time compiling for your use a list of companies that do nothing more than advertising and/or data-mining. Please see sticky post, SOME SITES YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO ALLOW, which was just updated a few days ago. You may like to blacklist any or all of those, then they will never show in the main menu again.

The main issue with letting decisions be automated by other sites is ballot-box stuffing, both pro and con.
Another is difference of opinion. Some people trust Google implicitly. I don't trust them any farther than I could pick up their building and throw it.
(personal opinion only -- NOT official forum opinion.)

Also, rather than make all of these decisions in the first place, why not follow this writer's practice of "If you don't need it, don't allow it" -- even if it comes from a site you trust. Allow only those scripts necessary for *the particular function you need", even if you trust the entire site.

Some of this is covered in NoScript Quick Start Guide, which is clearly a good idea for the new user to read.
Please avail yourself of these resources. Then NS will become far less cumbersome.

If you have further questions after reading the above, please don't hesitate to ask.