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It's a bad thing to not work, unless the JS adds something fundamental. Like it's an actual web app that needs it. I run without whenever possible as the web is
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
It's a bad thing to not work, unless the JS adds something fundamental. Like it's an actual web app that needs it. I run without whenever possible as the web is surprisingly fast once again.
Making me have JS on to show any text, or images, when it's just a news piece or blog post gets you a place in hosts and I'll never know if your site ever starts working sensibly. At least most single page SaaS sites work OK just with no Font Awesome icons.
My tolerance these days is quite low. It was rather higher a few years ago as there were fewer overall annoyances. Now we have paywalls, adwalls, sites stupidly broken without JS, every damn blog wants to present a modal subscribe when you scroll a bit, and Cloudflare wants VPN users to fill in at least 1 captcha every page load [1]. JS is often there just to bombard me with more annoyance, ads and the 24 analytics packages that every page now seems to want.
Often I find that the sites I visit often enough to trust a little, and would whitelist in NoScript don't actually need JS much. Most news sites for instance. Most product/service sites (though they lose a bit).
[1] Cloudflare decided on Thu and Fri that not only did most sites need a CAPTCHA, but if they used a CDN that needed one too, separately. That's a first. Cloudflare need to die in a fire. Or at least stop being so damn hostile to VPN users.
- miohtama 10y agoIt is an issue with low reputation IP addresses. Your VPN provider is being used to spam, etc. Switching to more reputable, usually more expensive, provider cures the issue.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoNot sure where I'd switch to - Private Internet Access seems to get recommended often, including here on HN. I'm ignoring the affiliate reviews as PIA game those heavily. Now they seem to be gaming OpenVPN audits lol. Of the more expensive that spring to mind Perfect Privacy doesn't seem that great for the highest price. Vypr look excellent but logs IP etc - no use for us living in hostile regimes (the UK). I guess that leaves BlackVPN.