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Author's premise includes a lot of personal opinion and simple gripe against JS. not a fan of this. Whats the limit going to be? 1MB? 5? why is it the browsers
by headcanon 8y ago
Author's premise includes a lot of personal opinion and simple gripe against JS. not a fan of this. Whats the limit going to be? 1MB? 5? why is it the browsers job to police that?
I run adblock primarily because I don't want to see ads and get tracked by sketchy sources. Resource usage is a minor bonus. If that hurts peoples pockets then so be it, most ads are out of hand and need to be tempered. Most people who run adblock aren't going to click on the ads anyway.
With that said, I do hope we're able to figure out how to treat web "sites" and web "apps" differently - for the former, I want as little JS as possible since that just gets in the way of content, but for the latter, the JS is necessary to get the app running, and I don't mind if its a few megabytes in size.
- mrweasel 8y agoWhile I'm not a huge fan of JavaScript heavy sites, I do think it's a little disingenuous to drag content blocking in as part of the argument. Ads have little to do with his basic argument, it just there to make the sales pitch go down a little easier. It's also not very effective as an ad-blocker or anti-tracking tool.
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