This article was a little startle to me - I never really thought to use NoScript as a security measure for myself. I use it to make the web 'quieter': no more pop-ups, pop-acrosses, popovers, pop-from-wherevers, plus a few other obnoxious behaviours are beaten into submission as well.

Stopping javascript isn't going to stop tracking anyway - the big players still track who's loading their button images, for example.