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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by dahart on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:45AM (#16158498)
> it just relies on well structured accessible content.

Honest question: how much of this is left? What popular sites are still accessible this way? HN might be the only site I visit frequently where browsing with no js/css has any hope of working.

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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by _jal on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:21AM (#16159285)
Try it and see. I block a ton by default[1]; most sites are just fine without it.

I get that some people have low tolerances for things not being perfect. CNN stories without JS usually have a pile of empty images at the top, for instance. But that is probably fixable; I just haven't bothered to figure out which bit of JS to allow for that.

Usability depends on your tolerance for imperfections vs. your tolerance for being observed.

[1] Current setup uses JS Blocker 5, uBlock, an aggressive cookie manager and my home proxy, which does a ton of things, many of which I don't even remember at this point.

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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by ekianjo on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:55AM (#16158571)
Check surfraw (by Assange), you can actually access a surprising amount of resources using sr and lynx from a terminal. Text only, but still makes internet pretty useful.
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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by MamboJ on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:45AM (#16158963)
Are you aware of any piece, writeup review or anything on Assange’s programming skills?
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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by rplnt on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:49AM (#16158522)
No js is suprisingly fine. Google search works, gmail works, maps don't :)
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Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS by sevensor on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:10PM (#16161901)
I browse HN using w3m, from which I'm commenting right now. It works on probably 80% of the links I attempt to visit. In many cases it works better than a graphical browser: I only see article text, and for reasons I haven't investigated I often seem to be ignored by paywalls. I never see subscription nagboxes or ads. Sometimes I have to search forward for the title to skip the load of garbage that precedes the article text.
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