| Much less than in IE, considering NoScript and CookieMonster.
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Even without those it's far easier than IE, but it still
requires changing several settings.
| Oh, do you disable the images also ?
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Yes, but only 3rd-party images. That eliminates most
ads and also stops tracking via web bugs. Some sites
end up being ugly because in some cases their images
are not coming from the same domain, but for the most
part it's fine.
I also use a HOSTS file for backup, and to block most
ads and tracking in Firefox. A small number of companies
provide the majority of ads and web-bug tracking, so it's
not hard to block most of it with a HOSTS file.
To block 3rd-party images:
setting: permissions.default.image value: 3
The setting seems to actually block all 3rd-party files.
I'm not sure, but it seems that what I see is affected if
CSS files are not on the same server as the webpage
I'm visiting.
This setting was originally in Firefox. There was a choice
to enable or disable images, but there was also a 3rd choice
to enable only images from the same domain, which is more
or less an ad-blocking setting. The Mozilla
people removed the option, claiming it was "confusing".
At the same time they renamed the prefs setting so that
only people who discovered the whole story would be able
to block 3rd-party images going forward. I think of that
change as the beginning of the end.... The start of Google's
money corrupting the Mozilla people. Since then they've
continued moving away from browser-for-the-people to
browser-for-milking-consumers design. Another notable
change was to hide cookie settings by default. Now they
even hide the javascript option.... All ads and tracking,
all the time. Of course there are options with extensions
and about:config, but I suspect that Google and their
Mozilla lackeys probably don't care much about that. Extensions
and about:config are for geeks. They're not a threat to the
tracking, data-mining and ads economy.