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Once again, this is why I've blocked javascript for years. Browsers really need to start offering this without add-ons or extensions.

notzorbo3 9y ago
Whenever someone complains about a website not working without javascript enabled, someone inevitably responds "it's 2017, you can expect javascript to be enabled". I think that piece of knowledge is outdated: - Late 1990's: static html documents + forms - early 2000's: shitty DHTML scripts that added nothing - early 2010's: javascript + gracefully downgrading sites - 2015/16: required useful javascript everywhere - early 2017: trackers everywhere, html5 popups, trackers, spywhere, trackers, bitcoin miners, trackers, etc, etc. 2017 is the year where you NEED a javascript blocker. What's the use of having any security at all if you're going to leave the biggest attack vector in modern times completely unprotected? Plus, the web has become completely unusable without a script blocker.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  I used to be big into webdev back in the .com wave. Nowadays I always push for HTML5/CSS3 with minimal JavaScript, preferably with server side rendering. For anything really complex I usually try to see if it can be done as native app instead.
- umanwizard 9y ago
  > the web has become completely unusable without a script blocker. When you exaggerate like that, it diminishes your point. I use the web all day, every day and I have never installed a script blocker.
  - KozmoNau7 9y ago
    Maybe not outright unusable, but certainly really fucking annoying. Not to mention hazardous.
ams6110 9y ago
Which browsers don't allow this? In Firefox and Chromium, you can switch off JavaScript entirely in preferences. The extensions just make it easier to allow whitelisting sites that you trust and that require javascript, or toggling for the current site.

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Once again, this is why I've blocked javascript for years. Browsers really need to start offering this without add-ons or extensions.

by edwhitesell 9y ago

notzorbo3 9y ago
Whenever someone complains about a website not working without javascript enabled, someone inevitably responds "it's 2017, you can expect javascript to be enabled". I think that piece of knowledge is outdated: - Late 1990's: static html documents + forms - early 2000's: shitty DHTML scripts that added nothing - early 2010's: javascript + gracefully downgrading sites - 2015/16: required useful javascript everywhere - early 2017: trackers everywhere, html5 popups, trackers, spywhere, trackers, bitcoin miners, trackers, etc, etc. 2017 is the year where you NEED a javascript blocker. What's the use of having any security at all if you're going to leave the biggest attack vector in modern times completely unprotected? Plus, the web has become completely unusable without a script blocker.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  I used to be big into webdev back in the .com wave. Nowadays I always push for HTML5/CSS3 with minimal JavaScript, preferably with server side rendering. For anything really complex I usually try to see if it can be done as native app instead.
- umanwizard 9y ago
  > the web has become completely unusable without a script blocker. When you exaggerate like that, it diminishes your point. I use the web all day, every day and I have never installed a script blocker.
  - KozmoNau7 9y ago
    Maybe not outright unusable, but certainly really fucking annoying. Not to mention hazardous.
ams6110 9y ago
Which browsers don't allow this? In Firefox and Chromium, you can switch off JavaScript entirely in preferences. The extensions just make it easier to allow whitelisting sites that you trust and that require javascript, or toggling for the current site.