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Disabling JavaScript by default makes this a non-issue on most sites. Just checked TechCrunch and it’s great without it. Likely like the designer intended.

On iOS, Brave browser makes toggling JS particularly easy.

90% of my mobile web browsing is without JavaScript. It’s much faster, cleaner, safer. And for the occasional website that needs JS, I can toggle it.

Similar to many here in the thread, I then tend to not visit sites anymore that require JS/are too bloated.

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I do the same, but with NoScript on Firefox. Unfortunately, thanks to all the AI scraping, many sites are using some sort of bot detection, wish fails unless you have JS enabled. It's getting harder and harder to use the web without JS. Cloudflare's bot detection will also flag you for having certain privacy features enabled on your browser, which is highly irritating.

The modern web is getting worse by the day. Not coincidentally, I find myself using it less and less.

>Not coincidentally, I find myself using it less and less.

Yup. Its getting to the point where folks send me links and I just reply "I don't or can't use that website" and I move on. Nothing is lost, I feel.

Note that an alternative in those situations is using uBlock Origin instead of NoScript, and then configure "Medium Mode" [1]

So, when blocking javascript (which uBo can also do of course) does not work, enable javascript with Medium Mode (blocks 3th party scripts and frames.)

(personally i use Librewolf.)

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode#medium-...

I also use uBo. And no script lets me select only the domains I want to allow, so I don't think there's much, if any difference in that regard. I'm mainly just irritated that I have to enable js at all since allowing it to get past a lot of bot checks means they also get to run all their other js hosted on that domain.

I also run librewolf on several machines, but have even more issues with cloudflare then. It's all just sad all around.

Actually, now that you mention it… Maybe it’s time for society to use gopher or some other ancient protocol

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