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Can't answer for the above poster. But after reading both your posts, I'm not entirely sure what you mean in any context. It could mean any of the below in this

Can't answer for the above poster. But after reading both your posts, I'm not entirely sure what you mean in any context. It could mean any of the below in this context and none make sense. Don't use Javascript to do anti-fingerprinting? (JS is the only language available to extension writers) Disable JS in your browser? (Breaks much of the web) . Don't use JS for web development? (I need to pay my bills) PS: Guessing games are a poor means of communicating a point.

pmoriarty 6y ago
"Don't use JS for web development? (I need to pay my bills)" This is not what I meant, but I will say that you don't need to pay your bills by making the web any more of a spyware and adware infested sewer than it already is. You as a developer and a human being have a choice of what to do with your life and your career. No one is forced to be a JS developer, and it's ridiculous to pretend you are.
- wcarron 6y ago
  I have to agree with GP. You were being obtuse and intentionally so. Now, you're tangentially ranting about agency and free will. Speak plainly and without airs.
- jstanley 6y ago
  This is a total non-sequitur. Just because you write javascript doesn't mean you're writing spyware or adware.
  - pmoriarty 6y ago
    It doesn't mean that you in particular are. But the web is spyware and adware infested. That's just a fact. And that stuff doesn't write itself. There are huge number of spyware and adware authors out there. It's very likely that quite a few of them are HN readers, and a pretty good chance that they're this article itself (as it concerns their business). Do I have any reason to believe that you in particular are one of them? No. Can I address such people when I reply to someone in a thread on browser fingerprinting who claims they need to write JavaScript to pay their bills? Yes.
    - ogre_codes 6y ago
      You have remarkably taken a comment which makes little sense and made it make less sense with each successive post. Eventually, there will be zero meaning to it entirely. Wait... I think we're there already.

pmoriarty 6y ago

"Don't use JS for web development? (I need to pay my bills)" This is not what I meant, but I will say that you don't need to pay your bills by making the web any more of a spyware and adware infested sewer than it already is. You as a developer and a human being have a choice of what to do with your life and your career. No one is forced to be a JS developer, and it's ridiculous to pretend you are.

wcarron 6y ago
I have to agree with GP. You were being obtuse and intentionally so. Now, you're tangentially ranting about agency and free will. Speak plainly and without airs.
jstanley 6y ago
This is a total non-sequitur. Just because you write javascript doesn't mean you're writing spyware or adware.
- pmoriarty 6y ago
  It doesn't mean that you in particular are. But the web is spyware and adware infested. That's just a fact. And that stuff doesn't write itself. There are huge number of spyware and adware authors out there. It's very likely that quite a few of them are HN readers, and a pretty good chance that they're this article itself (as it concerns their business). Do I have any reason to believe that you in particular are one of them? No. Can I address such people when I reply to someone in a thread on browser fingerprinting who claims they need to write JavaScript to pay their bills? Yes.
  - ogre_codes 6y ago
    You have remarkably taken a comment which makes little sense and made it make less sense with each successive post. Eventually, there will be zero meaning to it entirely. Wait... I think we're there already.