When I started angel investing in the late 1990s, a tech investment included a significant technology risk, with the potential upside being groundbreaking innovation. Being an investor at this time meant taking a considerable technology risk and betting on actual tech, such as nanotech, semiconductors or biotech.
E-commerce, albeit hyped and interesting, was not considered tech. It was “Business 2.0”, plain and straightforward, hype included.
Off by default already.
You have JavaScript enabled by default ?
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?
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.
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 since I can’t seem to find a whitelist-only-JS feature in it…
There’s one in your browser.
Oops, right. For Firefox, though, it’s tethered to Mozilla accounts for sync, right?
I’m also hoping to find a way to reach and use a whitelist more easily, although I suppose it’s mostly one-time activation.
But I think I’m gonna go the NoScript route that someone else mentioned here, since that lets you selectively enable some JS while disabling others on the same website.
I would feel like wading through sewer bare footed if I had all javascript enabled by default
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.
I also use ublock origin on top of it, that way its a little safer to test which sites to allow. Anything blocked on ublock origin is definitely something you dont need to run the website and if it is then its likely not worth using that website anyway.
Join me in leaving uBlock Origin for AdNauseam! I made a post about it that ended up gaining significant traction: https://midwest.social/post/25573927
If anything ever happens to ublock i’ll definitely switch to that one as retaliation. Unfortunately they dont work together and ublock has better features for blocking stuff I dont want to see.
Oh, what can it do that AdNauseam and NoScript can’t?
Dang it… I’m starting to feel the appeal now, lol! Hmm.
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)
Thanks for the reminder about PeerTube… I’ve gotta look into that, too.
That’s a weird question. That ‘yes’ seems as easy as “do you wear your seat belt? Every TIME?!?”
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.