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by Am4TIfIsER0ppos 1329 days ago
Disabled javascript by default for years with NoScript, through something else, and finally with uMatrix. Disabling it might put you into a smaller group but it prevents so many other details from leaking, which I remember from a similar sounding site from the EFF, you probably still gain.

So many ads require javascript to load and even some news paywalls fail to operate without it. Little happens automatically without it which is what you would expect from a web of interlinked documents.

Aside from the security and privacy benefits you discover how shit web designers are. They make things hidden with attributes like "display:none" "visibility:hidden" "opacity:0" "overflow:none" and expect the RCE to toggle them off. All the content I want is transmitted to me ans present in the page but for some godforsaken reason they thing it should be obscured.