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As someone who has JS off by default for a long time (ever since I discovered how much it could remove annoyances, and this was back when SPAs were basically nonexistent) and is thus often subjected to "Please enable JS" messages which more likely than not will simply make me click the back button[1], I am delighted to see this exists --- I've thought of the idea before, but never did anything with it: https://news.y…
In my view, micrototalitarian actions like this are every bit as bad as the ills they seek to cure. Insisting on infringing the liberty of others, before even so much as talking to another person is the very core of what ails our society in this time.
I'd argue that wild histrionics as you have just demonstrated are worse than whatever this is (which certainly does not infringe on anyone's liberty).
This website does not track you . Correction -> This website does not track you via JS. You have no idea what's logged on the backend.
It logs requests to the site, which is far less invasive than the fine detail of browser fingerprinting and tracking that JS allows: JS can see your mouse pointer's position, how long you spent on each area of the page, which parts of the text you selected, and many many other things. Things like this are seriously creepy: https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/mouse-recorder/
As someone who has JS off by default for a long time (ever since I discovered how much it could remove annoyances, and this was back when SPAs were basically nonexistent) and is thus often subjected to "Please enable JS" messages which more likely than not will simply make me click the back button[1], I am delighted to see this exists --- I've thought of the idea before, but never did anything with it: https://news.y…
As someone who has JS off by default (via uMatrix) I see a blank page.
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In which occasion a software ootb like a browser won’t have JavaScript enabled? I’m genuinely curious, the only time I saw something like this was using the distro Kali having no script in Firefox.
lynx links w3m that's just off the top of my head.
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back in the '90s I was into connecting to IRC servers using spoofed IP addresses. The way it worked is you told the software what OS you were connecting to (or it would figure it out itself, I can't recall). Each OS had a unique way of generating TCP sequence numbers, which allowed the software to guess which number would come next. Nowadays OSes have protection for this sort of thing. But I'd imagine you could still…
How are you going from guessing TCP sequences to spoofing IP addresses on TCP connections? Did you breeze over a step or am I missing something obvious?
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In which occasion a software ootb like a browser won’t have JavaScript enabled? I’m genuinely curious, the only time I saw something like this was using the distro Kali having no script in Firefox.
lynx links w3m that's just off the top of my head.
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Fair enough. For me, using the "Toggle js on and off" extension on Firefox 83.0 on Ubuntu, I see a blank page.
The reason you see a blank page is because the website wraps content into a tag and by "disabling javascript" it wants you to render content, not actually disable javascript. But it's a bad idea in practice. Most websites work better out of the box if you disable javascript, but not render , and also disable CSS, and inject some custom style to fix size of embedded icons. I'm not sure if there is a public extension t…
I would suggest that most websites work better if you have javascript and CSS enabled, since that's what they were designed for, but use an ad blocker like uBlock matrix to remove the ads.