The solution is to disable JavaScript and not run any untrusted apps. And then move to a shack in the woods and live off the land, because you just cut yourself off from modern society.
Sure, it isn’t perfectly safe. If HN or my employer goes evil, they can rowhammer me I guess. I’d expect it to cause a big todo, though, so I’m not that worried about it.
I don’t really understand why people seem to think disabling JS is a big hassle. Is this motivated reasoning by web devs or something?
It is not a big problem, and the sort of “ambient shittiness” of the internet greatly improved by doing it. Most sites work fine, they’ll default to some (better) less dynamic state, maybe some ads won’t load. For those sites that don’t work, you can make an exception or leave. Personally I’m now mostly visiting sites by people who don’t enjoy over complicating things, and who think about fallbacks. It is great!
Your phone is selling your location for antiabortion fanatics to harass you, or help your stalker find you. Your ISP is selling your browsing history to anyone with a dollar.
That databroker that everyone was selling too just went to bankrupt and the banks are selling your data to anyone with a penny.
We desperately need wholesale privacy regulation.
Yet no privacy.
It's almost like the people who run the country,
do not believe in democracy.
The fact that I must run JavaScript written by just about anyone, in order to live in a modern society, or the fact that I keep having to write code in JavaScript in order to run a (completely non-JS related) business.