I enjoy using NoScript but I found I could not recommend it to non-techie friends, as it requires a lot of manual input to not break webpages. Is Privacy Badger more user friendly?
NoScript really needs a black-list mode powered by a community-curated filter similar to adblock filters.
How is a NoScript with community filters different from uBlock/AdBlock? It would be vulnerable to the same profit-driven whitelisting AdBlock does.
It would be the same i think; If NoScript pulled the same thing AdBlock Plus did there would be a new app taking its place(like how uBlock Origin did)
I don't believe privacy badger has broken any sites for me, I just run it in the background and let it do its thing, but it will of course be less effective than noscript because it doesn't break sites, and often the domains you want to block will break the site.
With Privacy Badger, there were a few months not too far back ago, where on certain sites (e.g., sports blogs) when browsing in private mode (Firefox), the first time I would visit a site, it would work. Then every subsequent time it would not work (broken layout). My (unproven) conclusion was the first time, it hadn't decided the (JS? cookies?) were tracking me, but after that it decided it had. I haven't had this problem in the last few months, though.
it _is_ more user friendly but not as powerful as NoScript. I totally feel the same way about telling non-techie friends since they just "allow all temporarily" once they see the site is broken....