Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by bogomipz on Friday October 12, 2018 @11:36AM (#18202131)

>"I simply disable JavaScript. It's incredible how much faster the web is without it, and how much smoother, and how much less cluttered."

I'm curious is there any practical fallout turning JS off completely? Do you just switch it back on for things like e-commerce, web UI's etc? I always find the context switching to the settings menu a bit of a pain. Do you have some recommendations for things that make JS-free web browsing practical or seamless? Cheers.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by amgutier on Friday October 12, 2018 @11:54AM (#18202280)

I've attempted to keep whitelists working, but now I just use a separate chrome profile with javascript+cookies disabled that is for random blogs/news sites/etc. If you have 2+ chrome profiles open, there is a menu item for "Open link as > No Javascript" that does wonders.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by erik_seaberg on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:06PM (#18203371)

I think of it the other way around. I have a profile for the World-Wide Web and a couple for work and non-work javascript apps.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by bogomipz on Friday October 12, 2018 @12:20PM (#18202460)

I see, this makes sense. I'm sure there is something similar I can do with with Firefox. Thanks.

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