I have the same methodology but I'd say it's made my browsing massively worse than the average person. Mostly because of NoScript whitelisting, Ublock improves things immediately out of the box.
Here's some typical examples of my interactions with the modern web:
I'll open a website and nothing will appear because nowadays it's normal to load all content through Javascript. So I'll whitelist only the site and its CDN. It still won't appear because the site will be misconfigured to not load unless googletagservices has finished loading. So then I allow google. But then some other scripts from the tens of third parties will also be necessary to load it so I'll try to randomly temporarily whitelist the least scammy looking ones until it works.
For e-commerce websites, I'll allow all scripts in the tab because I know it's a lost battle to shop without it and then during checkout I'll often be redirected to another part of the site or to a payment processor in a new tab without script privileges which won't work, so I allow scripts on this tab and reload the page but it breaks their process and now I have to start over.
With some websites I get memory leaks because of NoScript. Alibaba and Vinted were like that for a long time, I don't know if NoScript or Firefox fixed something on their end or if the websites stopped doing the stupid shit they were probably doing, but for a long time I couldn't open those without using 10s of gigabytes of ram and crashing Firefox.
I put up with all of it because I don't like being spied on but, man, am I mad that I have to go through this.
Yeah it's a pain, but have you tried turning NoScript off? It's a nightmare of "give us your email address!" "accept our cookies!" "check out our whizbang menus that barely function!" "watch our article text slowly fade in!" "look at this image scroll in from the sides for some reason!"
The web with NoScript is a chore; the web without NoScript is unusable.
> misconfigured to not load unless googletagservices has finished loading.
Yep, this would be a website I'd just not use. For e-commerce, there's always another place. Ironically, sites which do their own tracking first party (Amazon.com) are much better than sites which do not, unless they're built on a standard platform like Shopify or BigCommerce.
I'd say your model for what makes an enjoyable web experience is different than mine. I care about content, not just getting sites to load. If a site is badly built enough and lacks so much respect for me as a user, I don't care what they have to say anymore and I move on. Your approach isn't necessarily wrong, but it certainly isn't conducive to whitelisting, because you'll end up whitelisting most of the things I'd actively want to block.
It's 2020, writing a website that works properly is easier than ever, and these businesses have no excuse for how bad their sites are.
Here's some typical examples of my interactions with the modern web:
I'll open a website and nothing will appear because nowadays it's normal to load all content through Javascript. So I'll whitelist only the site and its CDN. It still won't appear because the site will be misconfigured to not load unless googletagservices has finished loading. So then I allow google. But then some other scripts from the tens of third parties will also be necessary to load it so I'll try to randomly temporarily whitelist the least scammy looking ones until it works.
For e-commerce websites, I'll allow all scripts in the tab because I know it's a lost battle to shop without it and then during checkout I'll often be redirected to another part of the site or to a payment processor in a new tab without script privileges which won't work, so I allow scripts on this tab and reload the page but it breaks their process and now I have to start over.
With some websites I get memory leaks because of NoScript. Alibaba and Vinted were like that for a long time, I don't know if NoScript or Firefox fixed something on their end or if the websites stopped doing the stupid shit they were probably doing, but for a long time I couldn't open those without using 10s of gigabytes of ram and crashing Firefox.
I put up with all of it because I don't like being spied on but, man, am I mad that I have to go through this.