But if you never see ads how do you sell ads to them and how do you meaningfully discover enough about the person to feed them valuable ads?
I have been browsing with JavaScript disabled by default for the past 6 months. Based on my experience, no-JavaScript ads are rarer than four-leaf clover.
then you are not safe by just turning off JS.
And of course its not enough, but the situation is even more hopeless with JS on.
Not true. Especially if you mean a default browser with Canvas/WebRTC APIs enabled.
It is much more difficult for fingerprinting companies to get a high entropy fingerprint from a no-JS user.
(Aside: this mobile navigation is, incidentally, the worst implementation I have ever encountered: instead of twiddling some classes or such, which would happen instantly, it makes an HTTP request that responds with the new navbar. For me, this means at least half a second’s latency on clicking the button, more if time has passed so that the HTTP connection is no longer open (1.5–2 seconds). It also fails the no-JS test, as the unintercepted form-submit just serves the page with the closed mobile navbar again, not switching out the navbar as I expected it might, and which would have been enough to avoid an unconditional “worst implementation” award. Sorry if you made this and it hurts your feelings, but… ugh, this is just a baffling misapplication of hx-post and naive Tailwind use, and just unconditionally a bad approach.)
Edit: better link which shows what I suppose you probably meant: https://once.getswytch.com/app
It’s mostly a tech demo, so the things it does are intentionally weird/strange.
That's adorable. I guess you're not old enough to remember when we used to track people with things like invisible pixels. Or todays equivalent: testing CSS parameters.
Neither require JavaScript, and there are a hundred other non-JavaScript methods.
In the era of CGNAT that means you now only know which city I'm from and whether I use Chrome or Firefox. People mostly use browsers in maximized and resolutions are relatively standardized nowadays.
Compared to the data you get from canvas and webgl, that's much less unique.