Unwanted javascript is a job for the browser to refuse. Which is why the people who ship browsers try to make refusing as difficult or confusing as possible. -

Unwanted javascript is a job for the browser to refuse. Which is why the people who ship browsers try to make refusing as difficult or confusing as possible. ----- Turns out that youtube also has: 1) the dominant browser; 2) the same interests as, multiple partnerships with, and very little actual competition with the company that runs the next biggest browser in a walled garden, and 3) been completely funding the development of the browser that continually press releases as if youtube's aims are pure evil and that they are the only opposition.