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by hueving 2501 days ago
>the actual important pages that people want to use?

Where is this special list of important pages? Are the sites I want to use not important? Does your comment need to be so simultaneously defeatist and hostile?

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>Where is this special list of important pages? Are the sites I want to use not important? Does your comment need to be so simultaneously defeatist and hostile?

Or, as I like to call it, pragmatic.

Visits are a power law distribution, 80% of people's visits go to 20% of sites, and so on, recursively. s

So unless e.g. the top 1000 (which may vary depending on country) people want to use are there, e.g. the social media, news sites, booking, video, shopping sites, banking sites, you're just talking about a number of niche websites.

Sites that "still work with JS disabled" are in the minority on those lists.

Essentially you're saying "don't use all those sites with the content/services you want", use all those others that don't have tracking (but which you don't really care for).

E.g. pointing to Diaspora vs Facebook...

The best I've seen people come up with on this front is DDG vs Google.

> Sites that "still work with JS disabled" are in the minority on those lists.

You'd be surprised how many sites are still viewable without JS enabled.

You’d be surprised how many sites are more viewable without JS enabled.
Damn straight! Disabling JS fixes more websites than it breaks.