> But disabling JS because it can be used for intrusive ads is a lot like taking the wheels off your car...
You should try it sometime. Selectively enabling JS will be annoying at first, but as long as you save your preferences, the web will soon become a much less terrible place, and you'll rarely have to tweak your config. This approach won't work for non-techies, of course, but it's not much of a hardship for someone vaguely familiar with how the web works. Amazon, for example, works fine with a bit of JS not including amazon-adsystem.com.
You should try it sometime. Selectively enabling JS will be annoying at first, but as long as you save your preferences, the web will soon become a much less terrible place, and you'll rarely have to tweak your config. This approach won't work for non-techies, of course, but it's not much of a hardship for someone vaguely familiar with how the web works. Amazon, for example, works fine with a bit of JS not including amazon-adsystem.com.