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Overlap of privacy add-ons?

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My main three privacy add-ons are Ghostery, No-script and Adblock Plus. Adblock takes care of the on-screen detritus, and Ghostery takes care of the trackers and cookies. The full list of things it blocks according to its options page is


  • Advertisers
  • Analytics
  • Beacons
  • Privacy
  • Widgets

Now as for no-script, it might be doing something but I'm not 100% about that. For sure it's good at slowing down my websurfing since I have to manually determine which scripts are and aren't to be trusted, one at a time, which can make visiting new sites frustrating (and confusing) based on the number of scripts it wants to run, many of which legitimately make the site function.

If I already have adblock and ghostery, is there still a purpose for using noscript?
 
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