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Meanwhile, many websites decide to deliberately hide their content from you if you don't allow them to run JS. Not out of necessity - purely out of spite. Like
by elpocko 5y ago
Meanwhile, many websites decide to deliberately hide their content from you if you don't allow them to run JS. Not out of necessity - purely out of spite. Like a div that obscures the content, or styling that makes content invisible by default and requires JS to become visible.
- account42 5y agoI assume it's more out of lazyness / apathy than spite in most cases - e.g. they use custom fonts and then only unhide content using JS once the fonts are loaded. Not really an excuse, just don't think its people being actively malicious.
- duxup 5y ago> hide their content from you if you don't allow them to run JS. Not out of necessity - purely out of spite. Like a news site?
- elpocko 5y agoFrom my daily experience it's more small blogs and the likes than big sites. The kind of site that you only visit once because they got linked on HN.
- marcosdumay 5y agoRecently there appeared a philosophy of "let's hide the loading content so it doesn't reflow". I've seen a few sites requiring javascript that can only be explained by it.
- ironmagma 5y agoBlame the business folks, because this is almost certainly due to analytics.