Anyone who isn't disabling third party cookies, running noscript, and some sort of adblocker* isbasically asking for trouble.
*Yes, I recommend adblocks. Not only do they improve the browsing experience, you can set individual sites as whitelisted anyway. And yes, there have been stories of malware spread through advertisements.
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Everything enabled except plugins (on demand) and ads (blocked on websites that annoy too much). No problems so far
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There have been some exploits, which could be used to ditribute malware on your computer by opening a website. Think about it ;)
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I'm not worried so much about javascript exploits, what bothers me is third party info gathering and tracking. I use No-Script (in addition to a bunch of other blockers and privacy add-ons) to enable JS on a site by site basis. After I started using No-Script, I noticed how many sites use trackers, analytics and data-mining services to watch what you're doing on and off their site. This was really driven home when I started noticing that eBay was suggesting items that I looked at on unrelated sites, or searched for, that it should have had no idea I was looking at. I found it really creepy that they were stalking me across the internet so I decided to make sure no one could ever do it again.
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I'm rolling with Adblock Plus, Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon, BetterPrivacy(for those so called "super cookies"), CookieSafe(for regular cookies), Flashblock, Force-TLS, Ghostery, HTTPS Finder, HTTPS-Everywhere, Perspectives(take that man-in-the-middle attacks), RequestPolicy(because I decide if I want to see any third party content on a webpage), and User Agent Switcher.
Come at me Internets.
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I only use Adblock Plus and Adblock Plus Pop-up.
Please,explain to me.
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Chances are you will have to compile it yourself against your kernel anyway.
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Did you really have to necro this thread only to say that?
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Same here. hrome/IE9 with everything turned on. Including my common sense.
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Why would anyone disable JS?
If you're that paranoid use a text browser.
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i use noscript to disable javascript (and all plugins) by default, and then just enable it for sites i trust and find useful / necessary. i'm not worried about "destroying" my computer since that sounds more extreme than what's actually possible, but i don't want my computer spending time doing unnecessary things. so google analytics and tons of advertising scripts never see me. i also use opendns to completely block a small number of advertising servers, which has actually made youtube completely video-ad-free for me :)
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don't worry, i often watch youtube videos at work where ad servers are not blocked ;)
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Whoever tells you to turn it off is still using IE6.
Here is a simple and safe use of JavaScript for some fun. LifeHacker: Recover Any Password in Firefox with the Asterisk Revealer
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+1 XD!
They should try Firefox Nightly or Opera Next
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Take a look at this great sites:
http://ip-check.info/?lang=en (Hit "START TEST!")
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Then you will know why its important to block all scripts with NoScript, and use Ghostery, RefControl, HTTPS Everywhere, Better Privacy and Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for privacy purposes.
Moreover I recommend you Outpost Firewall Pro (lifetime license), which include many options for web blocking, like script blocking, cookie blocking, flash blocking, etc. It also has an host editor and an ip-blocker.
Also I hardly recommend you installing Bleachbit to seriously clean your system from junk, supercookies(LSO's) and eavesdrops.
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Alternatively you can just not use Internet at all.
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Or are you switching? Why?
Doesn't an enabled javascript make you more "vulnerable"... You could basicly destroy your Pc by klicking a picture,link,....
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