Re:The Bullshit Web
by smadge on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:02AM
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I don’t think there is anything wrong with user agents downloading resources (like images and stylesheets) linked to by an html document. It is the providers, not the user agents, who have violated the trust of users by including unnecessary scripts, fonts, spyware, advertisements, etc.
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"I don't think there is anything wrong with user agents downloading resources (like images and stylesheets) linked to by an html document."
Neither do I. For some websites, this is both necessary and appropriate.
However, in cases where the user does not want/need these resources, or where she does not trust the provider, I do not think there is anything wrong with not downloading images, stylesheets, unnecessary scripts, fonts, spyware, advertisements, etc.