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Re:A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online ... by tyfon on Friday November 18, 2016 @09:05AM (#12986793)
I am dealing with it by not visiting homepages that rely on JavaScript.

The point is I do not want a bunch of insecure code running on my computer just to read some text, which is what I usually do in a browser.

Re:A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online ... by truth_sentinell on Friday November 18, 2016 @10:31AM (#12987388)
Maybe all you visit is blogs. But there are lots of websites that rely on JS in order to express their intentions. It's like watching a movie with the mute on because the english accents bothers you -and without the possibility of subtitles-.
Re:A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online ... by xkcd-sucks on Friday November 18, 2016 @02:00PM (#12989171)
It seems that for most sites that rely on JS, about ten percent is actually necessary and the remainder is useless advertising/tracking/analytics/fonts/social media buttons. NoScript, uMatrix etc. are really helpful here.