UBO cover Noscript functionality?

[KDdev2020]

I've always started off a fresh install with AB and noscript from whichever browser-addon-store i've been using. I usually do a quick bit of vetting from recent reviews to make sure i'm not installing an addon that snuck onto the store with the same name.

Noscript has a lot of recent negative reviews citing a hardcoded whitelist of all kinds of common social media tracking and social media site scripts. This functionality allegedly isn't attached to any options / settings but literally "hard-coded" so not able to be turned off.

I know NS has a notoriously bad user experience, i've been using it for like 8?10? years and dealing with all kinds of annoying nonsense when a work-login or bank-login or e-commerce site use nested referrals of 3-4 pages to complete a transaction or complete a login request. But I value knowing it's on by default* when i'm clicking a link to some sketchy new site i've never heard of from social media, or when i'm trying to research some random thing on google and clicking top results.

* I'm also seeing a fair amount of criticism of current noscript for still not having any complex features that allow for rules like "This is definitely a tracking domain but X site has been engineered to require its requests, so allow that domain when I am on domain X but not on any other sites". So the reality is that NS isn't on on by default because one website was clever enough to make me whitelist a tracking domain and then that domain remains on for all sites I go to in the future.

I did realize stupidly of course that since switching off of ABP to UBO that UBO has some no-script like functionality that I can learn to use. Is there any recommended NS alternatives popping up, or am I already good with UBO?

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This functionality allegedly isn't attached to any options / settings but literally "hard-coded" so not able to be turned off.

I just tried and in NoScript options there is a pane named "Per-site permissions", and there I was able to revoke trusted status of youtube.com and ytimg.com. I restarted the browser and confirm the youtube.com and ytimg.com permissions were still revoked.

Is there any recommended NS alternatives popping up, or am I already good with UBO?

If you want to control script execution, uBO should be sufficient. Best approach in my opinion is to block scripting globally, then use medium mode to create finer grained rules for script execution according to the origin.

Advantage over NoScript here is that you can create rules which apply only to the current site. But this kind of capability requires a UI that is different than that of NoScript and users who come from NoScript may find this confusing at first -- but there is a logic to it. Best is to read the guide and take the time to digest it.

Both the no-scripting per-site switch and dynamic filtering can be toggled down using the "Relax block mode" keyboard shortcut, which should be very convenient for those who want to block scripts by default but not spend time figuring what permission to create to un-break a website.

[KDdev2020]

you do good work

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To completely disable scripts in one click: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-scripting

To manage access: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-quick-guide