I think #Interverse's creator / founder needs to put more time and energy into defining and refining it, and then announcing, promoting, and explaining it.
@Blort I'm using someone else's laptop (no #NoScript) so today is the first time I've seen the #Guardian's cookie management UI. It's a clever design choice to make users choose *something* (to turn each item on or off), but the list of third-party vendors involved is as long as my arm.
@LienRag#NoScript disables JS on all domains, primary and third-party, except for the ones the user allows. NS is a great tool, but it's an add-on, not a default feature of FF, let alone all browsers.
@wolf480pl 2 cores 4 threads is quite a different kettle of fish. But I bought a used laptop a year or so before I moved to China with those kind of specs (+2GB RAM, or was it 4GB?), and it still walked like a shellfish with Win7 on it.
> I had to choose between Firefox or Thunderbird, as running both at the same time would freeze the laptop.
That was the case with my A1 before I put the SSD in. It's amazing what a difference that makes. Also #NoScript rocks ;)
@neoninteger@jwinnie I'm assuming the stuff blocked by both of them depends on Javascript, yet? So if I run #NoScript (which I do), PB would have little data to learn from, and UO would be sufficient to catch anything that gets through when I occasionally allow JS on specific domains to make sites work.
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo thanks for the tip. I use #NoScript, which I have set to block JS from CloudFlare domains (and CloudFront etc etc). If a service doesn't work without that third-party JS, I just move on and try something else.
Perhaps because #Javascript is usually deployed by web designers, not software engineers or sysadmins. Designers who are given with minimal to no maintenance budget, if they're even retained by the client after they deliver a website design. In practice, JS is a hot mess of known bugs and security holes, running on your browser without you knowledge or consent (unless you use #NoScript etc).
It's a bit of a pain at first, selectively enabling #Javascript on the few sites where you really need it, but it massively improves the performance of older computers when using the web browser. I used to get regular freezing and crashing of my laptop while browsing the web. Not any more, and I can have many more tabs open at once without problems.
Thanks @bhaugen . I'm not sure I can see the issue with the original link. I think I used #ReaderView to read it, and since I use #NoScript I see less crazy flashing lights stuff on the web anyway.
Thanks @bhaugen . What was the exact issue with the original link? I think I used #ReaderView to read it, and since I use #NoScript I see less crazy flashing lights stuff on the web anyway.
@strypey What? Someone is surprised that users are hostile to the idea of mining currency on their computers without their express permission? (Yet another reason not to allow #JabbaShit / #JavaScript to run by default. #NoScript)
One of the things I find most fascinating about using the #NoScript add-on with my web browser, is seeing how popular third-party script are, and just how many third-party domains some sites are subjecting their visitors to. https://noscript.net/
One of the things I find most fascinating about using the #NoScript with my web browser, is seeing how popular third-party script are, and just how many third-party domains some sites are subjecting their visitors to.
@dredmorbius I may be misunderstanding what you were saying there, but I stop my browsers from pigging out on RAM and crashing the desktop by installing #NoScript and selectively allowing #Javascript per site, as I need it. I have 4GB RAM in my newer laptop, and 2GB in my older (32-bit) laptop, and both of them run fine now, regardless of how many tabs I've opened. Not a single noticeable system hang, glitch, or freeze since I adopted NoScript. It's gold!
@alfred browser is #Firefox 68.0.2 64-bit (#ABrowser distribution) running on #Trisquel 8.0 (updated today). I'm running #uBlockOrigin 1.24.2 (disabled for Libranet.de) and #NoScript 11.0.9 (with libranet.de set to "trusted").
@billstclair I don't suggest that you reimplement your entire app in HTML. I'm suggesting that you provide a single JS-free landing page. For an example, visit the pixelfed.social login page, with JS off or blocked. As you say, browsers (like #Brave) are gradually adding controls that #MakeJavascriptOptional, and many more people are using script control plugins like #NoScript or #LibreJS. So web makers need to get used to not being able to run scripts on a visitors PC without opt-in.
Experimented with allowing #NoScript to set all top-level domains to trusted, allowing them to run #Javascript without me opting in. First time my browser almost crashed my system since the first time I installed NoScript. Thanks, but no thanks bloated JS developers of the world ;) #MakeJavascriptOptional!