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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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