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I'm sorry you didn't have a good experience with our toolbar. The false positive rate is actually very low, but there is a subset of sites (new launches) where we still have some problems. Basically there is a time lag in our crawling. Unfortunately, this effects the HN (startup) crowd more than others.

A lot of people want to avoid parked domains and ads, hence the popularity of noscript. You do not appear to be one of these people :). So it probably wasn't for you in the first place.




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