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> 2. Is my advertising value less than someone who enables JS? Definitely. Because they have less information about you, and also because most websites don't e

> 2. Is my advertising value less than someone who enables JS? Definitely. Because they have less information about you, and also because most websites don't even know how to display advertisement to people like us who don't use JS :) > 4. Are there just too few NoJS users for this to matter? I believe so. I'm no insider to this *** industry, but i believe they currently don't employ much noscript-proof fingerprinting. That's why they are currently moving to a model of serving their scripts from 1st party domain (via CNAME) to defeat 3rd-party origin blocking. If more and more people disabled JS, they would certainly care more to track us. All in all, if you want a tracking-proof protocol, you should check out Gemini. If you want a tracking-proof web browser, you should check out the Tor Browser. If you're like me and would like some form of modern web minus client side scripting and without any tracking venue, i guess all we can do now is cry :)

chrischapman 5y ago
I don't think I have a need to use Tor but I have seen Gemini mentioned several times here on HN. I definitely need to look into it a bit more. Thanks for that.
- southerntofu 5y ago
  Just nitpicking: i think everybody needs to use Tor because Tor Browser is closer in spirit and practice to the original WWW as a document browser. You are reading documents, not the other way around. TBB uses tor network, which is good to conceal your location from remote services (why should your mail provider know if you logged in from home or from your friend's?!). But beyond that, TBB has amazing anti-fingerprinting techniques and built-in noscript. I recommend you try it out just for the sake of curiosity. I personally wouldn't dream to use another browser nowadays that the unfiltered web sucks so much and a single page can eat all of my CPUs if JS is enabled.
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chrischapman 5y ago

I don't think I have a need to use Tor but I have seen Gemini mentioned several times here on HN. I definitely need to look into it a bit more. Thanks for that.

southerntofu 5y ago
Just nitpicking: i think everybody needs to use Tor because Tor Browser is closer in spirit and practice to the original WWW as a document browser. You are reading documents, not the other way around. TBB uses tor network, which is good to conceal your location from remote services (why should your mail provider know if you logged in from home or from your friend's?!). But beyond that, TBB has amazing anti-fingerprinting techniques and built-in noscript. I recommend you try it out just for the sake of curiosity. I personally wouldn't dream to use another browser nowadays that the unfiltered web sucks so much and a single page can eat all of my CPUs if JS is enabled.

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