henkejs
Yeah, I've been using AdBlock for a while now. Big help, but it still didn't stop all those auto-play videos.

Seriously, NoScript does. ABP mostly just blocks domains that feed ads based on a blacklist (I think). It doesn't really deal with scripts to the extent NoScript does. If you use Firefox it's easily searched in the add on section. I think it's available for Chrome now too and maybe Opera (but Opera I believe has it's own advanced features to do stuff like that... Opera is the nerd's browser and is highly underated).

Oh and there is also Ghostery but I find that slows things down. It's almost like it loads everything into itself then chucks out the scripts whereas NoScript just loads the HTML and nothing else until you tell it to.
 
It does however have a built in whitelist that I always delete after installing it except for some things I like to keep allowed like the domains that make youtube work (youtube.com and ytimg.com).
 
Here on the Cake forums I have to allow the main cakewalk domain and starting after the redesign/update a year ago ajax.googleapis.com which is ultra annoying. It's a dumb google app thing so web designer can use googles tools instead of designing stuff themselves but it is on so much crap and I suspect since it is from google it has tracker bullpizzle built in. Pretty annoying.
 
 
 

Another nice thing about noscript is you can allow a video to play on a page temporarily while still blocking the ridiculous number of ad and tracking scripts on the same page.

dubdisciple
Another nice thing about noscript is you can allow a video to play on a page temporarily while still blocking the ridiculous number of ad and tracking scripts on the same page.

Oh, yeah. It's not an all or nothing thing. You allow only the bits you need and leave the rest blocked. Some sites have dozens of domains and weird things all scrambling to load at once. It's really ridiculous and really bogs down you system.
 
It is kind of annoying at first figuring out what you need to allow to make things work (usually just the main domain and one or two other things for vids or certain comment boards... like this one) but eventually you start recognizing what's what and a lot of sites use the same services for that crap. Like I know that on some site I have to allow longtail.com or whatever to see a vid streaming from there.
 
If a site refuses to work if I don't allow more than two or three things I just don't bother with that site because it's probably infested with malware and other crap anyway.

Tried it. They're still playing. Sigh.

yorolpal
Tried it. They're still playing. Sigh.

NoScript? You may have to go into the Whitelist in the NoScript options because it allows a bunch of stuff by default.
 
If you are on Firefox go to your AddOns > Extensions where you should see NoScript. Click the Options button and on the dialog that pops up click the "Whitelist" tab. There you will see all the stuff on the whitelist. Just select what you don't need and click the "Remove Selected Sites" button. As I said I clear out pretty much everything except the two that are necessary for youtube. The only other one I keep is the entry for Mozilla.

But you were referring to sharke's post, weren't you? D'oh!
 

I will check out noscript, thanks!
 

sharke
I will check out noscript, thanks!
 

Lemme know if you run into any problems. It's a little weird to get used to at first especially trying to figure out which domains to allow for what but the benefits far outweigh the initial annoyance IMO. It's all about experimenting with your whitelist to make sure all the things you actually need to work on the sites you use regularly are allowed and/or you know what to allow when.
 
The biggest thing you will notice is likely Google. Their various services rely on things like gstatic and the like being allowed or on Amazon you have to allow their image host. Crap like that.
 
Cheers. You're gonna love a script free net.