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> We (NoScript users) have our reasons to keep it disabled by default. Out of curiosity, what are those reasons? Related to privacy? Annoyed by animation?
by pingswept 15y ago
> We (NoScript users) have our reasons to keep it disabled by default.
Out of curiosity, what are those reasons? Related to privacy? Annoyed by animation?
- EvilTerran 15y ago* Invasion of privacy - that's a big one, yes. * Obnoxious and gratuitous animations - yep, that too. * Pop-up/floating/video ads - static or near-static ads are fine. However, if it covers up the content, or makes a noise, it can go die in a fire. * Badly-written scripts, or pages where there's half-a-dozen+ streaming video ads, can bring my creaky old laptop to its knees. * There's a possibility (albeit small) of security holes in the browser's scripting engine. * Personally, I consider graceful degradation a metric of the quality of a website - if it craps out without good reason, that reflects poorly on its owner, and is going to make me suspicious of the quality of their product. I'm sure there's more, but that's all that spring to mind for me at the moment.
- icebraining 15y agoPrivacy and security (XHR and CSRF are still two of the most common security flaws on websites) is definitively one of the reasons, but I think the most important one for me is having the habit of keeping (many) dozens of tabs opened - and sometimes opening a dozen or more within a few seconds, like when reading HN - while using a single-core 1.6GHz laptop. Heavy JS can bring it to its knees.