"If you end up whitelisting most of the sites you visit just to get them working, what’s the point of having NoScript in the first place?"
https://www.howtogeek.com/138865/htg-explains-should-you-disable-javascript/
*FACEPALM* Um ... maybe to block all the tracking and malware scripts that you haven't marked 'trusted'? People who know this little about basic web security practices should be banned from writing for sites called "#HowToGeek". This blog piece is practically #FakeNews.