I never thought of it that way, now it's mentioned that seems exactly right to me. Again with flash, I felt this was always pushed by commercial entitites because it was convenient for advertisers and trackers. You basically "needed" it then it was used to shove ads in your face.
Some of us have started working on documenting the alternatives here: https://friendsofdevuan.org/doku.php/community:alternative_browsers My favourites so far are uzbl, and netsurf.. and anything that doesn't require a login works well with lynx or w3m. Cheers, chillfan ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On May 12, 2018 9:21 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 05/05/2018 03:13 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > > > Quoting chill...@protonmail.com (chill...@protonmail.com): > > > > > At minimum, I'd like to see browsers blocking certain possibilities > > > from javascript. > > > > This isn't going to be provided in the default configurations of major > > Web browsers because the firms producing and supporting them are > > financially supported by firms funded by Internet advertising and user > > tracking. > > Yeah, it is the same reason as to why there is almost zero publicity about > browser fingerprinting nor any effort to properly address it only bullshit > "private browsing mode" "tracking protection" etc that doesn't actually stop > the latest and most high tech forms of tracking users. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
