Greetings. On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:26:35 +0100 Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoth hiro: > > I don't mean a list of all features imaginable, I mean a list of > > features that exist e.g. in chrome, but are disabled in surf by > > default, for sanity reasons. If you read again what I wrote my concern > > is not lack of features. My biggest problem about web bullshit is that > > it is too difficult to disable features. > > It would be interesting to make a list of commonly annoying & worth > disabling (or at least providing a toggle to disable) features. Of > course -sp does basically all of this, but at the expense of quite a > few sites refusing to work at all. > > The most annoying thing I've found is quite a few sites like the > piratebay and isohunt have some javascript that opens a popup (or > multiple ones) if you click anywhere. And because they're click > triggered, no popup blockers seem to work on them (I'd guess adblock > disables the appropriate .js, though privoxy doesn't out of the > box.)
As a little impression how worse it can get, go to simcity.com with Firefox and adblock plus, then try to click on all the buttons to buy the game with only enabling a minimal subset of the recursive Javascript dependencies. I think I counted five dependency levels until the special effects of the buttons started to work and I could click the button to buy the game. Buying the game was a really bad decision, but that’s another topic. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
