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Most of the time I use my own browser [1] because I set this javascript to False and can therefore "roughly" do without an adblocker. Unfortunately no social me
by void_nill 7y ago
Most of the time I use my own browser [1] because I set this javascript to False and can therefore "roughly" do without an adblocker. Unfortunately no social media or other login services work. For Youtube, Twitch and other video services I also use mpv which turned out to be a very good and fast solution.
The author is right when he says in the conclusion that it is really difficult to do without Firefox. Although many services can be fixed with external programs, these are often only emergency solutions.
But I also learned to distinguish between the "information" web and the "entertainment" web and since I do a lot of research, programming and reading in data sources I don't need Javascript to 95%. Other points are important to me, e.g. fast loading times, low CPU and minimalist design. But you have to do without many features.
Text-based web browsers are cool, yes. But if you're not in the Linux scene and ride on (e.g. Manjaro I3) it's incredibly cumbersome and exhausting.
[1] https://voidnill.gitlab.io/cosmic_voidspace/alligator.html https://voidnill.gitlab.io/cosmic_voidspace/alligator.html
- chewxy 7y agoI used to do this many years ago. Then I added JS to upvote and downvote on HN and reddit. Then I gave up. Now I just use umatrix on Chrome or FF
- pmarin 7y agoYou don’t need javascript to upvote and downvote on Hacker News.
- void_nill 7y agoWhoa! And as I just notice by your comment, not for the login either. I only tested the HN search function once and it only worked with Javascript. Therefore I assumed that this is the case with all other functions. Thank you.
- icebraining 7y agoYeah, it uses a service called Algolia, and unfortunately their frontend depends on JS. But you can use http://hnapp.com/ http://hnapp.com/ for JS-free search. (I'm not affiliated)