uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking

Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by EvanAnderson on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:34PM (#21589356)

Absolutely. I'm not railing against WASM. WASM just has better marketing and tooling than straight Javascript.

Putting a VM into our browsers, along with sufficient API support to make that VM useful, is what spells the eventual end of the document-based web. I think that future arrived a few years ago and it's just not evenly distributed yet.

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by irrational on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:11PM (#21589634)

>the eventual end of the document-based web

That sounds like the worst future possible. I love the fact that I can go to any web page and look at all of the HTML, CSS, JS (even if I need to use a tool to un-obfuscate it). Have you never wondered how someone did something and then looked at their code to find out how they did it? I love being able to use curl and wget to grab a web page. How would that work in a non document-based web? I really think this would be a terrible thing if it actually came to fruition. I truly hope I'm retired or dead before it occurs.

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by BlueTemplar on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:20PM (#21596587)

That's already an issue with minified JavaScript. Can we still call minified JavaScript "Web" ? What about non-minified JavaScript?

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