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Your house isn't also accessible by anyone in the world, anywhere, at any time. People who complain about this stuff conveniently ignore that a massive amount o
by thefreeman 4y ago
Your house isn't also accessible by anyone in the world, anywhere, at any time. People who complain about this stuff conveniently ignore that a massive amount of traffic to public websites is malicious and automated in nature. It's not crazy that website operators want to block that stuff. They would rather block the .0001% of people who choose to block javascript than expose their site to the junk. You can rage at Cloudflare all you want but if it wasn't a service people wanted then they wouldn't be offering it.
- nonrandomstring 4y ago> .0001% of people who choose to block javascript The measured number of browsers blocking JavaScript varies between about 0.7% and 4% with an estimated global average hovering around 1.5%. Here are some sources [1,2,3]. [1] https://www.cotsweb.com/blog/how-many-people-have-javascript-disabled-in-their-browsers-revisited-217.html https://www.cotsweb.com/blog/how-many-people-have-javascript... [2] https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/stats-no-javascript.html https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/stats-no-javascript.... [3] https://deliberatedigital.com/blockmetry/javascript-disabled https://deliberatedigital.com/blockmetry/javascript-disabled