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0 pointscreate-account1y ago0 comments

Oh no. Just block every connection through uBlock Origin so you get a mostly JavaScript-less website.

There are so many benefits to browsing without JS

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There's 3 extensions which I consider must-haves:

- Noscript Security Suite which has made it very obvious how absolutely fucked today's web is (there's sites which can't display static text without js, as though HTML and CSS are insufficient to display styled text with some markup).

- uBlock Origin because obviously.

- Multi-account Containers, which aren't quite as good as profiles, but get like 70% of the way there.

fragmede1y ago

> there's sites which can't display static text without js

as developers, we understand how stupid that is and the utter insanity of javascriptium that got us there, but how is that a selling point? If I install that extension, I get a degraded experience and I get to be judgey because the framework the developer(s) they hired used some bit javascriptium that doesn't degrade nicely. am I supposed to feel smug that I've figured that out? why would I want to make things worse for myself? just for some small sense of feeling better than other people?

create-accountOP1y ago

JavaScript makes the surf experience a PITA with constant pop ups with consent, subscription. “Cookies or coins”, etc.

create-accountOP1y ago

Aren’t no script and uBlock Origin redundant?

tmtvl1y ago

I don't think so? I admittedly haven't played around much with uBlock's js blocking, but I thought it was a binary on/off rather than the more granular control NSS offers.

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tmtvl1y ago

There's 3 extensions which I consider must-haves:

- uBlock Origin because obviously.

- Multi-account Containers, which aren't quite as good as profiles, but get like 70% of the way there.

fragmede1y ago

> there's sites which can't display static text without js

create-accountOP1y ago

JavaScript makes the surf experience a PITA with constant pop ups with consent, subscription. “Cookies or coins”, etc.

create-accountOP1y ago

Aren’t no script and uBlock Origin redundant?

tmtvl1y ago

I don't think so? I admittedly haven't played around much with uBlock's js blocking, but I thought it was a binary on/off rather than the more granular control NSS offers.

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