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The safest way to browse the web in any browser is by disabling JavaScript or using a NoScript extension. A lot of the web works surprisingly well still, and y
by buro9 2y ago
The safest way to browse the web in any browser is by disabling JavaScript or using a NoScript extension.
A lot of the web works surprisingly well still, and you can turn on just what you need when you need it, placing your most visited sites on an allow list, but still denying a lot of third party things on those sites.
The internet is a joy with js disabled virtually everywhere. And all the canvas fingerprinting, webrtc leak, font fingerprinting, super cookies, etc... are all defeated by simply not running JavaScript
- sureIy 2y agoI think the amount of useful websites that work without JS are on a steady decline. No one wants to invest into a 0.1% share, so if it works it's likely out of chance. Even newspapers have a bunch of popups that expect JS to be closed, so you have to hope uBlock is already configured to remove it for you.
- buro9 2y agoHave you tried?
- kvdveer 2y agoI have. Most information-type websites (blogs, recipes, news) work fine. Many app-style websites (email, bug tracking, chat) don't work, or have very poor ux. Guess which of these two categories I spend most of my time on...
- checkyoursudo 2y agoBut it is trivial to allow js per website using ublock. My default is no-js, and if there is some website I really want to use that requires js, then I enable it. If I find myself using that website regularly, then I make the permission permanent. It is literally zero burden. I am not some no-js evangelist or javascript hater or anything, but a huge amount of the web really does work fine (sometimes better even!) without js enabled by default. I don't think it has to be strictly either-or.
- amelius 2y agoCan't a JS engine keep track of what data comes from the canvas (directly and indirectly), and refuse to send that back to the website?
- ninkendo 2y agoAre there decent noscript extensions for iOS safari? The only things I see on the App Store are a few sketchy looking extensions I’ve never heard of.