If the first item isn't "whitelist JS", you're doing it wrong. So many problems arise from letting any site run programs on your computer that it's best to reserve the privilege to the most trusted of sites.
I have also found that since using Noscript that way and only whitelisting the few sites I actually use interactively, now because all the Cookie warning garbage, clicking away of subscribe dialogs etc is gone, all in all I do less manual annoying interaction on sites I visit.