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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by conductr on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:54PM (#18828895)
Sounds like a miserable way to browse the web. Why not just isolate your browsing in a VM and trash it when you’re done?

I’m not security expert but seems to me if you clicked on something malicious, it costs you nothing as you’re not really exposing anything. Obviously don’t do your banking, etc on the same VM then go clicking around warez sites

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Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App by JohnFen on Friday January 04, 2019 @07:25PM (#18829024)
It's not miserable at all -- in fact, I personally think that it makes most websites better. If a website can't operate without JS, then I just don't use that site. No loss to me.

VMs are another reasonable approach. I don't do that, though, because it's more hassle than it's worth to me.

> if you clicked on something malicious

That's not my primary concern. My primary concern is really to stop bad behavior that is very common across all websites (tracking, etc.)

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