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twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion does not work due to CORS. (For me, it doesn't matter much since Twitter depends on JavaScript and Nitter does not.)



Big fan of Nitter. Switched to it when Twitter killed off non-javascript last year, and I rewrite all Twitter links in it when resharing with others. Works great in w3m, or in NoScript without need to whitelist a social media tracker.


Would it be possible for one of you experienced NoScript'ers to write a set of tips and tricks? I have been using NoScript for about a month since someone mentioned it here, and it has been wonderful. I never imagined I could opt out of just the trackers and APM bloat so easily, and my phone battery life is improved dramatically too. But I bet there are more things like Nitter that I haven't yet discovered.

Thanks!!


I'm not sure what to focus on. On the desktop, I combine uMatrix+NoScript for better coverage of CSS, cookies and images across domains, while still having convenient one click whitelisting in NoScript. That's just a personal preference.

Expand/collapse sections that default to collapsed. Particularly annoying if no one bothered to put fallback CSS in a noscript block. Using custom CSS style rules can help with this. Unfortunately Mozilla killed the vast majority of their extension ecosystem on the phone. One silly hack workaround I found was that their darkmode extension they did whitelist allows custom CSS rules that can be used to fix things like this. It isn't nearly as elegant as using Stylus on the desktop for this.

Reader mode can help with broken sites. Disabling all CSS also a quick fix if you just want to read stuff. Almost like browsing with w3m. (View→Page Style→No Style) Dynamic image loading - regrettably despite HTML support for it, many sites use JS hacks and are probably pretty disinclined to support NoScript users. I've made custom fixes in violentmonkey for sites I care about on the desktop - mostly out of sheer cussedness. No solution on mobile that I know of apart from whitelisting.

old.reddit.com ♥ - shame Mozilla killed the addon to autorewrite the urls.


Even better when paired with an extension like privacy redirect.


That's a good idea. Nitter proxies behind Tor onion service nodes.




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