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Re: Stop sending me your errors

#11

Post by m463 » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 1:27 AM UTC

don-code wrote: post #2

As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well. The ideal case is that a website gracefully degrades with JS disabled. That's largely a pipe dream with React usage being what it is, but some sites manage it. Github is one who still does this well. The nonideal case is that I'm presented with a misrendered site, but I can still see some semantic information that may, or may not, be what…

> As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well.

Same with umatrix, wsj.com as an example:

  Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker

and I just skip the website.

Re: Stop sending me your errors

#12

Post by luz666 » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 7:11 AM UTC

m463 wrote: post #11

don-code wrote: post #2

As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well. The ideal case is that a website gracefully degrades with JS disabled. That's largely a pipe dream with React usage being what it is, but some sites manage it. Github is one who still does this well. The nonideal case is that I'm presented with a misrendered site, but I can still see some semantic information that may, or may not, be what…

> As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well. Same with umatrix, wsj.com as an example: Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker and I just skip the website.

I skip these websites too. And also skipping websites that ask for cookie permissions in a malicious way. It is just not the kind of people/content I want to be around and therefore not worth my time. I am wondering myself, if I am the only one doing this.

Re: Stop sending me your errors

#13

Post by Arch-TK » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 9:11 AM UTC

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #8

I feel for the author but they are the digital Amish driving a horse down a paved road.

I don't agree with the analogy, but let's run with it for a second anyway.

Sending a mangled `text/plain` part in a `multipart/alternative` (when you could simply omit it) is the email equivalent of having a store that advertises that it sells Amish-compliant items, but the only compliant items on sale are hand-painted wooden boards that say, "Sorry, we don't sell Amish-compliant items."

Don't want to go out of your way to cater to the Amish? No problem. That's not what the post asks of you; the post simply asks you to stop claiming to do so.

Re: Stop sending me your errors

#14

Post by JackSlateur » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 1:38 PM UTC

luz666 wrote: post #12

m463 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well. Same with umatrix, wsj.com as an example: Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker and I just skip the website.

I skip these websites too. And also skipping websites that ask for cookie permissions in a malicious way. It is just not the kind of people/content I want to be around and therefore not worth my time. I am wondering myself, if I am the only one doing this.

You are not alone

Re: Stop sending me your errors

#15

Post by Hnrobert42 » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

Arch-TK wrote: post #13

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #8

I feel for the author but they are the digital Amish driving a horse down a paved road.

I don't agree with the analogy, but let's run with it for a second anyway. Sending a mangled `text/plain` part in a `multipart/alternative` (when you could simply omit it) is the email equivalent of having a store that advertises that it sells Amish-compliant items, but the only compliant items on sale are hand-painted wooden boards that say, "Sorry, we don't sell Amish-compliant items." Don't want to go out of your…

By my analogy, I meant that the author has chosen a hard road. They can be steadfast in their belief (one with which I am sympathetic), but the proof is all around them that things will not get better.