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by teh_klev 2857 days ago
Original article on Science Alert instead of this BI reheat with its annoying adblocker popup:

https://www.sciencealert.com/sinister-hunger-stones-dire-war...

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If you disable JS you don't need to worry about it. ;)
You also don't need to worry about 90% of the web, either. ;)
Good thing the 10% that actually matters doesn't require JS. If your content is actually important, it'll be accessible without JS.
Yup, Basically the only website I have JS enabled on is my Bank. All other stuff I have no need to enable it.
Be honest with yourself -- are you a representative sample of most people?
Honestly, I'm probably not. But what does that matter? I save bandwidth and don't have to be annoyed by a lot of ads.
You guys dont use Google Docs, Netflix, or Youtube?
Not surprisingly, I don't use 2 of those things. I find YouTube to be too much of a distraction so I've gotten rid of it. I don't use google docs because it's too slow (in comparison with native word processors.) and I don't have a google account. Netflix, I watch on my Amazon fire. :)

Edit: oops the rest of my comment contradicted my first part.

Same, on my laptop I run OpenBSD. Like you, I don't care for Youtube but if I do find myself wanting to watch a video there, I use youtube-dl. I also don't do Google, and instead of a word processor I use a text editor for just about any text manipulation; if I need "pretty printing" I use Markdown and send the output to a PDF. Netflix I get through my TV's Netflix app, or my Fire tablet.
No.