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by coldpie 1849 days ago
NoScript and uBlock Origin go a long way to making the web usable-ish. There's still hurdles, but at least you have to opt into those hurdles instead of having every website punch you in the face with garbage. Works on Firefox for Android, too.

The thing that's driving all of the bad behavior you're talking about is the advertising business model. The sooner we can destroy web advertising as a viable business model, the better.

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Noscript is such a PITA though. A phenomenal app, but goes to show it's borderline impossible to stop that abuse as it makes your experience almost entirely unusable.
Yeah, that's the trade-off. Let random JS crap run on every website, or put up with NoScript. The modern web totally sucks.