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That's an entirely different question to whether it should be on by default for random sites, which is what GP is actually talking about. I would go farther and
by andrewflnr 6y ago
That's an entirely different question to whether it should be on by default for random sites, which is what GP is actually talking about. I would go farther and say that there was never a time that it looked reasonable.
- scrollaway 6y agoDon't you think JS being so available is part of what made it so popular, and thus what made it accessible, and what brought programming to millions who wouldn't have done it otherwise?
- andrewflnr 6y agoI think that asking users "do you want to let this site run JavaScript?" would have been an acceptable trade-off in availability.
- scrollaway 6y agoLook up alert fatigue.
- andrewflnr 6y agoI've heard of it, actually. I don't think that's a good reason to enable JavaScript by default any more than it's a good reason to give webpages access to my camera, microphone, and filesystem by default.