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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by caspervonb on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:53AM (#17825131)
I wish... even GitHub won't work properly without JavaScript enabled these days.
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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by jwilk on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:38AM (#17825326)
IME, most parts of GitHub work fine without JS enabled. (Though sometimes I have to disable CSS to get my hands on some forms…)

This is unlike major competitors (GitLab, Bitbucket), which are completely broken.

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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by btasovac on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:15AM (#17827415)
Hello everyone, GitLabber here! We had a similar issue about this [1], and we raised another one when deciding to further clarify our documentation regarding this question [2]. You can find out more about our motives behind this decision there.

[1] - here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/36754 [2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43436

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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by jwilk on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:01AM (#17827793)
Ironically, you have to enable JS to see comments for these issues…
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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by detaro on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:03AM (#17827815)
Not really ironic, it tells you what the answer in those comments was
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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by Deimorz on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:04AM (#17825178)
Completely disabling Javascript isn't feasible, but you can use uMatrix or NoScript with all scripts blocked by default, and only whitelist ones on sites/domains that you trust.
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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by interfixus on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:11AM (#17825472)
Exactly. I've been browsing script-free for twenty years. It used to be a real pain switching on and off, until Opera introduced easy by-site settings. But then, back in the day most sites were perfectly servicable without any scripting whatsoever. And these days, uMatrix makes it all a snap.
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