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I fucking hate the modern web

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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 113 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • This website needs JavaScript to display the most basic content, have fun with a blank page otherwise
[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, we load the JavaScript from five different CDNs, some of which are horrifically slow today. We also make sure to only load some of the scripts after others have been successfully loaded so uMatrix users have to refresh the page a dozen times.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

out dated and abandoned. use LocalCDN instead (although it's kinda useless as well from a tracking perspective)

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I didn't knew that.

[–] mazelado@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What makes you say it’s abandoned? The last release was about a month ago.

[–] TonyToniToneOfficial@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That last one fucking kills me

[–] ares35@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i run with scripts disabled unless explicitly whitelisted. this one is annoying af,. so many sites use client scripts to display static content and navigation elements that absolutely didn't need to--at all. right underneath these idiots is the morons that load the entirety of jquery in a bazillion different external files.. and for what? a fucking hover effect over their menus or links or something equally ridiculous.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, but they don’t just load jquery themselves… for each site “feature” they pull dynamically from a different CDN, loading the same code over and over again to call different functions.

And all it takes is for ONE of their CDNs to get poisoned and suddenly they’re serving malware.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The worst is when they redirect you to some /nojs page or similar that doesn't even have scripts from whatever source was required for it to run so I can't just tell noscript to allow whatever seems relevant, I have to blanket allow scripts temporarily.

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[–] appel@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

RIP Unofficial NYTimes paywall bypass by disabling JavaScript :(