Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a...
by 3xblah on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:29PM
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I apologise that he used your site as an example. Nice work, BTW.
The question we were discussing is whether a user who "just wants to read an article" needs to keep Javascript enabled for every website she visits, or whether she could keep it off by default and whitelist a smaller number of sites where she wishes to turn on Javascript for whatever reason (such as Price Hipster).
I would not question whether anyone should enable Javascript when using the web to do shopping online.
However I think "just reading an article" online is a different category of use entirely. The costs of enabling Javascript in that case may outweigh the benefits.
The question we were discussing is whether a user who "just wants to read an article" needs to keep Javascript enabled for every website she visits, or whether she could keep it off by default and whitelist a smaller number of sites where she wishes to turn on Javascript for whatever reason (such as Price Hipster).
I would not question whether anyone should enable Javascript when using the web to do shopping online.
However I think "just reading an article" online is a different category of use entirely. The costs of enabling Javascript in that case may outweigh the benefits.