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by e12e 3641 days ago
Apart from other points sibling comments have made - the current Web is very much a mush of "trust one site" leads to running code from three, four different domains via CORS and whatnot. My favorite alerts in noscript are people running js from bare cloudfare and s3 domains (do you trust all js publicly available on s3?) (and other cdns) - and also the "secure" amazon stuff like the hn search-box: some random AWS/cloudfront subdomains, a third-party service (algolia) and its accompanying domain for static resources.

It might be convenient and powerful - but secure? With our current huge (in code and complexity) browsers? With the series of bugs in font rendering, image libraries etc?

[ed: autocorrect. Apologies for seemingly calling algolia "third-rate" for a while there!]