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by shrimp_emoji
1059 days ago
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> Are y’all browsing the internet like this? I also do. > If so how and why? Isn’t most of the modern web dependent on JavaScript? I expect a webpage to be a webpage, not an "app". I always think it's funny that many pages will print the message "This app requires JavaScript to run" when they fail to work without JS. "Apps", I feel, should be executables I run on my machine after installation. I mean, that's bad enough -- how do I know a video game isn't scouring my system for all my personal data to sell to advertisers as it admitted in the EULA I didn't read? But now webpages can be fly-by-night Turing complete brain surgeries on my computer? No thanks. Gee, thanks W3C, for making battery life and other things JS queries which are at best useless and at worst tools to track and datamine me. (By the way, all the ads, sometimes also malware, loaded via JS sure eat into that battery life. Yay!) Let me whole-heartedly subscribe to this Molochian acceleration to value extractive singularity so that I can visit a webpage! Maybe I'll also get to enjoy some shitty animations or standard workflow-breaking behavior (e.g., pagination/right-click context menu hijacking) while I'm at it to get in the way of the content I wanna get. :D |
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