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Re:Cover Your Tracks by stickfigure on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:31PM (#25167889)
I use a Chrome extension called "Quick Javascript Switcher". If you click the icon in the bar, it switches JS off/on for the domain - using Chrome's built-in allow/block list for JS.

I honestly could not live without it. At this point I have pretty much every news and recipe site on the internet blocked. Visiting a new site, as soon as I hear my fan spinning up I reach for the "no-JS" button and the page suddenly becomes responsive again.

I'm not quite to the "no JS as default" level but I'm close.

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Re:Cover Your Tracks by Rivosa on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:15PM (#25171487)
Genuine question: Why use Chrome?

Google themselves admited they are an ad company rather than a search engine company. Why use a browser by a company where their main revenues are ads.

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Re:Cover Your Tracks by stickfigure on Saturday November 21, 2020 @08:07PM (#25173977)
I don't care? Of all the evils in the world, I just don't think advertising warrants much concern.

I am tempted to use Firefox more to avoid browser monoculture. But Chrome pretty much just works.

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