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How is the day-to-day experience of browsing the web with JS disabled by default (genuine question)? I feel like I would attempt to browse JS-free and then get
by aosaigh 4y ago
How is the day-to-day experience of browsing the web with JS disabled by default (genuine question)? I feel like I would attempt to browse JS-free and then get frustrated with the number of pages that don't function without it. Possibly similar to using DDG and constantly having to !g every second search.
- sysadm1n 4y agoWell most articles on HN work fine with JS disabled by default, apart from /show which usually has JS SPAs. To be honest, it is a pain sometimes having to temporarily enable JS with uBo just to make a website work, but it's the price I pay for a modicum of privacy (and accessibility) on the web. I have good muscle memory though, and the act of enabling JS with uBo is so ingrained in me, that I often do it without much effort.
- wtallis 4y agoYou end up allowing first-party scripts from most sites that you frequent (except the ones that don't actually require it for basic functionality, but use it to implement anti-features), leaving third-party scripts disabled most places. After you've been browsing this way for a month or two and your ruleset is reasonably populated, the annoyances are almost entirely with clicking random links on HN and Reddit; often, I decide a poorly-accessible site probably wasn't worth my time anyways, but I'll reconsider if the comments indicate otherwise.