Re:Linux ransomware in the wild
by checkyoursudo on Saturday October 21, 2017 @08:57PM
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On my Linux desktop, I run firefox with uMatrix and if a page isn't readable without javascript then I don't bother, except a very few handful of sites that are whitelisted. If it's content that I really feel like I need to see, then I run chromium with just an ad blocker. They are each run from separate chroot instances, though with firefox container tabs that won't be as necessary anymore maybe.
On my macbook, I run Safari with no loading of JS or images at all, and firefox with uMatrix again. And again, if a page isn't readable without JS, then I don't read it, or I wait until I can use chromium on my desktop, assuming that I'm not going to allow the scripts in uMatrix, which I usually don't.
On my phone, I run Safari with JS always disabled, which is actually perhaps surprisingly fine for the vast majority of mobile websites.
And I run firefox for iOS with JS enabled if I really really need to look at something that doesn't work on non-JS Safari.
You get used to it. Most JS on the web is junk anyway. I don't have any FOMO by avoiding JS almost entirely, but maybe that's just me (and people like me)?
On my macbook, I run Safari with no loading of JS or images at all, and firefox with uMatrix again. And again, if a page isn't readable without JS, then I don't read it, or I wait until I can use chromium on my desktop, assuming that I'm not going to allow the scripts in uMatrix, which I usually don't.
On my phone, I run Safari with JS always disabled, which is actually perhaps surprisingly fine for the vast majority of mobile websites.
And I run firefox for iOS with JS enabled if I really really need to look at something that doesn't work on non-JS Safari.
You get used to it. Most JS on the web is junk anyway. I don't have any FOMO by avoiding JS almost entirely, but maybe that's just me (and people like me)?