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These tracking sites would not be able to show me ads anyway because I have “uBlock origin”
And finally “I don’t care about cookies” to automatically dismiss these stupid GDPR “we’re going to use cookies” prompts.
Without these the Internet feels broken.
I wouldn't mind going back to a JavaScript-less web experience. I know not all tracking is based on JS, but the browser provides so many heuristics this way: screen size, cursor location, installed plugins. Give me reasonably formatted HTML, and something a little bit more powerful than curl.
Nothing stopping you from doing this on your next / current project. I've been 100% committed on getting the web back to as lightweight as possible for the last couple years worth of development.
I wouldn't mind going back to a JavaScript-less web experience. I know not all tracking is based on JS, but the browser provides so many heuristics this way: screen size, cursor location, installed plugins. Give me reasonably formatted HTML, and something a little bit more powerful than curl.
I wish there was simply a way where ad-supported sites I visit could collect their revenue without having me submit to advertiser surveillance. I don't mind seeing ads. I hate being tracked.
Thing is, nobody ever said ad supported sites have to be viable.
> This loops through all cookies saved in the database and checks if they are a tracking cookie, if it is it checks that they have an interaction permission which is still valid. If the Permission is not valid we delete all data associated with the site that owns that cookie.
I wouldn't mind going back to a JavaScript-less web experience. I know not all tracking is based on JS, but the browser provides so many heuristics this way: screen size, cursor location, installed plugins. Give me reasonably formatted HTML, and something a little bit more powerful than curl.
It would be an eternal niche, but it might be a nice, cozy little niche.
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uMatrix basically does that for you now.
Blocking trackers helps a lot for performance, and I second uMatrix. I even showed my 13 year old kid how to use it. However, uMatrix on mobile is not particularly easy to use (I use it, but would not recommend it).
The zapper's fairly easy to use to get rid of annoyances on mobile, until you make a mistake. Editing the rules file isn't the nicest UX even on desktop FF. (It'd be good, for example, to be able to preview what's being blocked, and selectively re-allow them.)
For an example of how it can go wrong: you block 'overlay', then it reveals and you block 'grey-blur-modal-focus', allowing you to click whatever you wanted, except it turns out that it uses 'overlay' and you shouldn't have blocked that one.
And in v80 in alternate universe, Firefox will purge the sites from the Internet, after the data. Somebody please point me to the portal...
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Nothing stopping you from doing this on your next / current project. I've been 100% committed on getting the web back to as lightweight as possible for the last couple years worth of development.
Almost all front-end development jobs are looking for React or Vue skills.
I wouldn't mind going back to a JavaScript-less web experience. I know not all tracking is based on JS, but the browser provides so many heuristics this way: screen size, cursor location, installed plugins. Give me reasonably formatted HTML, and something a little bit more powerful than curl.
What methods are there to exert more control over the JS engine in Firefox? Screw performance, I'd have a lot of fun writing my own hooks/wrappers to overload certain method calls.