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Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming by elorant on Saturday July 14, 2018 @07:44PM (#17532975)
You can't turn off third party JS. What if I have an Intranet that's loading an external API. It could be anything from a chat session to analytics. You do that and you break the web.
Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming by krageon on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @08:50AM (#17549296)
I run all of my browsers (including mobile) with all 3rd party scripts blocked by default. Most sites that you care to casually consume will work without issue. Anything that uses a payment provider or google to login needs 2 greylist rules (which are mind-numbingly simple to click on once).

I can set it up for people that don't understand what they are doing (and I have) and they will not notice anything in almost every case.

As such, I conclude that this generalisation is grossly overstated and you probably haven't tried it to see if what you are saying is correct.

Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming by perl4ever on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:21PM (#17533074)
Well, it's feasible if you fork the web instead. If a significant number of people want draconian measures to be taken, and they converge on a search engine that can exclude the non-compliant, then the new standards have a chance of catching on.

Suppose I say I just want to eliminate javascript entirely - that's not feasible to enforce, but if I could just search the non-javascript pages out there, then a new way of doing things can be bootstrapped.

Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming by stefan_ on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:54PM (#17545498)
Uhm, external analytics is exactly what we're trying to break here. And if you need an external API, have whoever is serving the Intranet page load that - that's how it's been forever. Websites loading data through JS from 20+ endpoints on a single page is very much a recent disease.