I only use Linux here as someone else mentioned earlier.

I used to do the noscript thing, but it became too much of a pain for poking around. If you have just a few set places you surf to, it's manageable.

I run a Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole as my first defence (it requires a couple of white listings so Windows Update works if you use that), then on each browser I install Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger and Ghostery (the last one requires configuration to work properly) and I have turned Ghostery off on a couple of sites as it blocks my ability to log in.

I used Firefox for years, but in the past year I've succumbed to searching for a replacement, currently I'm playing with Opera and Vivaldi (both are based on Chrome from what I can tell). There is another one I'm going to take a look at, but the name escapes me at the moment.

I'd say there's nothing wrong with NoScript if you are happy with it, it's more of a convenience thing for me.

Regards

Christian