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Comment by dshep | Hacker News Reader

I've been using Brave most of this year and really like it.

The killer feature for me is that it lets you disable scripts for individual websites or 'Allow scripts once'. This basically makes most paywall news sites readable.

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This is exactly what Noscript extension on Firefox does since forever.

Much of what Brave does out of the box can be achieved with an array of extensions which have existed for some time. One major appeal of Brave is that these features are built-in, on-by-default, and have no reliance upon Google to not break them moving forward (see Manifest v3 and uBlock Origin, and/or MetaMask being temporarily removed from Google's Web and Play Stores). With Brave, the type of privacy and control users expect is baked-in, and easy to use. Download, Run, and Done. The way it ought to be in 2020

Noscript is incredibly fussy and hard to use. Also it does not have the 'allow scripts [to run] once' ability afaict.

Works smooth for me. This option exists too, it’s called “allow temporarily”.

I love this feature also. I just wish that when I disable scripts for a website, it would still let my browser plugins that inject JS work. On Firefox, whatever browser plugin I use to block scripts does this out of the box. It makes more sense to do it this way, since I’m not saying “don’t run scripts on pages of this domain”, I’m saying “don’t run scripts originating from pages on this domain”.

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