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0 pointsPyxl1018y ago0 comments

I browse with NoScript and quite a lot of the web works just fine, in fact. I can selectively enable JavaScript for sites that need it, and that I trust.

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CogitoCogito8y ago

Why was this downvoted? This is clearly true. I am in fact doing it right now. I am sitting in an airport and clicked around 20 different comment sections and articles from HN so that I could read them later. None of them gave any issues. The only js that I decided to allow was from HN so that I could expand/hide comments.

Does this mean that all websites work? Of course not. But this allows the user to choose which sites to allow to run js. I'm not going to pretend that this is an easy task for non-technical users, but we should be promoting these kinds of habits, not scoffing at them. We should educate as many users as possible that they can still (for now) control much of the web-based code executing on their machines.

pastage8y ago

Well it's a severe case of confirmation bias. The people I know that uses NoScript like tools white list sites and third parties, that makes it seem like it works better than it really does. Further more they choose not to visit sites that work poorly. All the problems are visible as a new user, sure it's obviously possible to use NoScript but I need to white list too many sites to be able to say it actually works.

gspetr8y ago

Some sites like NYT wouldn't even render text (!) for me by default with noscript on.

Then there was that time when I read on HN about Forbes loading 35 MB worth of crap (lots of JS too) when you first access it, sure enough it's completely broken with noscript too if you don't allow it.