On: FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public Surveillance

[ReverseCold]

Breaks JavaScript, internet no longer works for anything newer than 1995.

[fencepost → ReverseCold]

If you're willing to have some sites break a bit at first then improve for ones you visit regularly, uMatrix in Firefox is excellent. Many items are disabled by default, but for sites you visit regularly you simply save the rule tweaks you've made for future use.

[CaptSpify → ReverseCold]

> Breaks JavaScript

That's a feature, not a bug. JS is super useful, but only when used correctly. It's rarely used correctly anymore.

[AnimalMuppet → ReverseCold]

... when the internet didn't take over what you were trying to read with a full-screen video ad.

[cortesoft → AnimalMuppet]

But every page had blinking marquees, crappy color schemes, and frames.

[ekianjo → ReverseCold]

My stance on this is that your site should be better if you activate javascript but it should fall back gracefully into a readable format without it.

[zymhan → ekianjo]

Your stance on web programming doesn't make a JS-free web reality.