Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.

• termaxima@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You have JavaScript enabled by default ?

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  • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doing so would break nearly all Internet access. Do you really run a whitelist rather than a blacklist? Is it not tedious to add hundreds of domains to one rather than a few to the other?

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    • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I actually do this. With uBlock Origin you can set to default block any JS (or just 3rd party JS) and then whitelist by domains. Then you can lock in per-site settings.

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      • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, I recently left uBO for AdNauseam because it actively attacks advertisers by clicking every link (thereby leading to garbage data that messes up their stats), but it can’t operate with uBO simultaneously. I’ll see what I can do to copy this approach…

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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I would feel like wading through sewer bare footed if I had all javascript enabled by default

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      • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        omg, I’m using NoScript now and my eyes have been opened; I can’t ever go back!! Thanks for the analogy; that was a much-needed, jolting wake-up call.

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      • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dang it… I’m starting to feel the appeal now, lol! Hmm.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I run a whitelist. I’d rather be more private than know what to blacklist (and there’s often a lot of extra JavaScript that gets called, mostly for tracking).

      It’s not that tedious. You just add as you use the internet. Refresh the page when you’ve whitelisted.

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      • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        there’s often a lot of extra JavaScript that gets called, mostly for tracking

        Do you mean that your tool (whatever you use) can selectively block some JS while admitting others on one website?

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    • termaxima@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I do ! I use NoScript in Firefox, and I allow scripts selectively when they’re needed. You’d be surprised how many websites just work with everything off !

      This may differ depending on your usage, though. I don’t really use in-browser apps if at all possible, and I don’t use conventional social media aside from YouTube and Reddit (PeerTube and Lemmy are better but there’s still too much info / people on the corporate versions to fully switch over)

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      • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the reminder about PeerTube… I’ve gotta look into that, too.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you really run a whitelist rather than a blacklist?

      That’s a weird question. That ‘yes’ seems as easy as “do you wear your seat belt? Every TIME?!?”

      Is it not tedious to add hundreds of domains to one rather than a few to the other?

      After about a dozen you’re kinda set. I will enable one-offs in a private window, usually for shit news sites or the very occasional referral farm, and the exceptions are all reverted when I close the tab.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You need to disable JavaScript to read my blogspam.

  Off by default already.

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