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Re:Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android... by moooo99 on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:18AM (#26512026)
Normal websites should absolutely, but actual webapps don't necessarily need to. Modern JS allows for very capable audio, video and 3d web applications inside the browser. The alternative if it wasn't for JS would be to build desktop apps, which would introduce a completely new set of problems and potential security risks.
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Re:Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android... by deepstack on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:16AM (#26512910)
> audio, video and 3d web applications

For sure, audio, video do not need JS to function.

Yes you need JS for 3d webGL, but it also opened another can of worm that allows company to fingerprint GPU pretty much anyone who is not using Safari regardless if you are in incognito mode.

What most web developer don't realize browser was build to be a sandbox to protect you from the world wide web. Seems like the current trend is tear down that sandbox for usability and functions. Which is fine, then advertise that browser with JS enabled pretty much open you all that risk. It should be in the educational to the public as well as the first page of any browser that doesn't sandbox GPU finger printing.

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Re:Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android... by zzo38computer on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:16PM (#26517244)
This is true, and web browsers will need better user configuration to control such things, including fine controls to control what exactly a script does. The web developer console is a good start, but it doesn't even start to go far enough at all.
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