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0 pointschrismorgan3y ago0 comments

I just read through that article. Of the specific things it mentions, I think Twitter might no longer work without JavaScript, but everything else is true now just as it was then.

Nothing has changed.

Source: personal experience, as one who blocks JavaScript by default because it makes the web better more than it breaks things. Also very occasional observation of people browsing the web with very similarly-configured browsers apart from the disabling of JavaScript, and of people browsing the web without even uBlock Origin or similar (and that’s really painful to watch).

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denton-scratch3y ago

I block 3rd-party JS by default. (I'm not sure who the second party is supposed to be, I guess that's me). I'll take JS that you serve me yourself.

Basically, I'm willing to trust a site that I've deliberately visited; but if they want to load a score of scripts from sites I haven't deliberately visited, and I can't see content without them, I'm outa there. Often these are big scripts; and the site-owner can't possibly be vouching for them, if he's not even serving them himself.

I think linking out to 3rd-party Javascript is lazy and irresponsible. Any testing you've done on it could become obsolete at any time, without notice. It's done to avoid having to keep up with patches; "No, I don't know what version of JQuery you got served; you were supposed to get served the latest".

capitainenemo3y ago

Twitter removed their non-JS interface but Nitter still supports it just fine.

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