Many people won’t even know what we’re talking about; to them it’s like saying “the sheer amount of websites that are unusable without HTML”. But I use uBlock Origin in expert mode and block js by default; this allows me to click on slightly* fishy links without endangering my setup or immediately handing my data over to some 3rd party.
So I’m happy to see news websites that do not require js at all for a legible experience, and enraged that others even hide the fucking plain text of the article behind a script. Even looking at the source code does not reveal it. And I’m not talking about paywalls.
* real fishy links go into the Tor browser, if I really want to see what’s behind them.
Said it on a top-level comment as well, but I use “medium mode” on uBlock (weirdly not advertised, but easy enough to enable: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode). I’ve found it to be a good middle ground between expert mode which is basically noscript, and rawdogging it.
If I encounter a site that I can’t visit unless I enable JS, then I leave.
Yes.
Many people won’t even know what we’re talking about; to them it’s like saying “the sheer amount of websites that are unusable without HTML”. But I use uBlock Origin in expert mode and block js by default; this allows me to click on slightly* fishy links without endangering my setup or immediately handing my data over to some 3rd party.
So I’m happy to see news websites that do not require js at all for a legible experience, and enraged that others even hide the fucking plain text of the article behind a script. Even looking at the source code does not reveal it. And I’m not talking about paywalls.
* real fishy links go into the Tor browser, if I really want to see what’s behind them.
Said it on a top-level comment as well, but I use “medium mode” on uBlock (weirdly not advertised, but easy enough to enable: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode). I’ve found it to be a good middle ground between expert mode which is basically noscript, and rawdogging it.
If I encounter a site that I can’t visit unless I enable JS, then I leave.