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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by scrollaway on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:53PM (#25923340)
Don't you think JS being so available is part of what made it so popular, and thus what made it accessible, and what brought programming to millions who wouldn't have done it otherwise?
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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by andrewflnr on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:29PM (#25924298)
I think that asking users "do you want to let this site run JavaScript?" would have been an acceptable trade-off in availability.
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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by scrollaway on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:47PM (#25924419)
Look up alert fatigue.
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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by andrewflnr on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:08AM (#25924866)
I've heard of it, actually. I don't think that's a good reason to enable JavaScript by default any more than it's a good reason to give webpages access to my camera, microphone, and filesystem by default.
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