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by 0df8dkdf 1923 days ago
this sites are the exact reason why I browse without JS by default. There is no business a site should know how many previous web site I have visited as well as my CPU. All these JS API ought to be able to disabled by default.
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A WIRED article from 2015 talking about the benefits of browsing the web without JavaScript: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-...
Firefox has started nuking some of them like battery api and has a setting for fingerprint resistance which returns a standard value for all of the useful but not essential fields like time zone.