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Re:Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'rans... by cm2187 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:49AM (#11296839)
Actually the web doesn't look too bad without javascript. It's not only safer, but you get no annoying pop ups, no text moving as you read it, etc. You basically get raw HTML+CSS.

Except when some idiot thought that he needed to create a complex SPA to render a blog article. But is the opinion of such an idiot really worth reading?

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Re:Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'rans... by FussyZeus on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:23AM (#11297033)
I agree on principle, but many very not-idiots write for websites they don't entirely control that more or less require JavaScript.

I have it enabled and use uBlock, and I've never had an issue with this sort of garbage getting on my machine.

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Re:Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'rans... by cm2187 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:35AM (#11297116)
With uBlock you rely on someone manually maintaining a blacklist of domains. So it's only as safe as this person is quick to update its list and your uBlock to load the new lists.

There is zero reason to require javascript to display a few paragraphs of text. You might enhance it with javascript but that wouldn't be a problem when viewed without. The blogs designed by an idiot I am referring to are blogs that will display a white page with javascript disabled.

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Re:Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'rans... by reustle on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @12:05PM (#11298346)
I mean, if your day-to-day tasks are as basic as reading some text, than carry on. But if you're doing anything reasonably complicated or modern, it just won't work.
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Re:Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'rans... by cm2187 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @12:30PM (#11298568)
Chrome has a convenient way to add exemptions. I wish they had slightly richer features, like temporary exemptions or exemptions for first party scripts only.
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Re:Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by 'rans... by gorhill on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @03:56PM (#11300204)
> exemptions for first party scripts only

uBlock Origin's advanced mode supports this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

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