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Switching off JavaScript makes me love the internet all over again
Things are so fast and zippy. Things don't jump up and down as you go to tap. On mobile web the differences are even starker. Has anyone tried switching it off? How has your experience been?
- kevsim 6y agoI guess you’ll hit a lot of SPAs that don’t work at all, but then again you can always opt in on those.
- wtracy 6y agoDefinitely look into one of the browser extensions that lets you whitelist JavaScript for individual domains. There's always going to be something that you'll need to use that requires JavaScript. Otherwise, yeah, it's awesome.
- maxharris 6y agoSwitching off my CPU makes me love my computer all over again.
- peace2all 6y agoAmen! Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- gabrielsroka 6y agoI use Brave for Android for this reason. It's great! I should try it on my beefy Windows laptop, too. Browsing with JavaScript and ads makes my CPU go insane. What a tangled web we've woven.
- skinnymuch 6y agoHow is Brave relevant to no javascript on mobile (or otherwise)? Any more than any other browser. For no ads (not that Brave actually blocks all ads. It’s good but not great), there’s different ways to accomplish that on mobile.
- gabrielsroka 6y agoBrave allows you to block scripts with 2 taps [0]. I can't even count how many taps it takes on Chrome for Android--at least 6, then you have to type in the URL, etc. [1] And Google's own help site doesn't explain how--hmm, I wonder why. [0] https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022806212-How-do-I-use-Shields-while-browsing- https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022806212-How... [1] https://www.digitional.com/how-to-disable-javascript-ads-in-android-chrome-for-a-specific-site/ https://www.digitional.com/how-to-disable-javascript-ads-in-...
- nor-and-or-not 6y agoYes, I use Firefox with uMatrix and JavaScript disabled, except for some hand-picked sites where I have JS enabled. So if a website I open doesn't work without JS and also doesn't show anything when disabling its stylesheet, I simply ignore it and move on. I have no mercy for websites spinning up my laptop's fan.
- Awelton 6y agoThere are very few websites I allow to run javascript. I'm against the entire idea of running remote code for the privelage of having paywalls, cookie pop-ups, newsletter invites, scrolljacking, and spyware. Javascript was a mistake.
- mekster 6y agoIt gets tedious as you need to keep enabling JS on sites that require them, which is quite a bit. Some sites don't even show anything with JS disabled, worse, still nothing until cookies/local storage is allowed. You'd have a better experience using ad blocker than killing JS.