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Re:Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser by my69thaccount on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:05PM (#31512002)
This is mostly the fault of lazy and ignorant front end developers.
Re:Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser by t-3 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:42PM (#31512840)
I doubt that. Monetization is a goal of most of these platforms, which makes the JS and privacy-hostile stuff absolutely intentional and implemented with malice aforethought. There's no reason to require client-side computing for the vast majority of sites, and the remainder are relatively niche webapps. Media-viewing sites aren't niche, and have good UX reasons, but I'd bet the vast majority of use is outside of the web interface anyways (ie. on mobile).