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> Easily 2/3rds of the ones I visit work, FWIW. I started blocking JS a few weeks ago, and this has been my experience as well - a pleasant surprise. For a lo
by sundarurfriend 6y ago
> Easily 2/3rds of the ones I visit work, FWIW.
I started blocking JS a few weeks ago, and this has been my experience as well - a pleasant surprise.
For a long time I thought that would be a step too far, that browsing would become so annoying and unpredictable because of it. Any annoyance from having to turn on JS for individual sites is easily outweighed by the number of annoyances I avoid - news websites are actually readable, blogs open with their content rather than with an in-your-face pop-up, and as a bonus, I pay attention to things like: how many 3rd party domains is it trying to connect to? does it require 3rd party JS to be enabled to function at all? did they even consider the possibility of disabled JS and bother to write a noscript message? Things like this translate to a measure of trustworthiness to me now, and I've been both horrified (by simple blogs trying to connect to 80+ domains) and pleasantly surprised (by complex-seeming websites that don't use 3rd party JS at all).
- Moru 6y agoIt's funny when the blocker says 99+ scripts blocked on a news site because it can't display more than two digits. Or when you end up with a black page because they didn't bother with a no-script version.