![]() ![]() all forks where each time I chose the other path.īut by saying "no" to that steaming pile of shit I don't find I've said no to modernity and I don't find myself disavantaged in any way. You use Twitter and Facebook and Google etc. I got some time ago that not everyone shares my hierarchy of values and concerns. Now look at the net gain (Google Docs!) and the net cost and tell me Javascript is a great idea. ![]() In fact, let's just keep this simple, forget all that.Įvery time any human being in any security agency in all nations the world over is engaged in any activity, offensive or defensive, which has as its ultimate root cause Javascript, just make that the bill you have to pay. Include in your calculations direct financial losses, expenditures in counter-measures, all the manhours spent in ameliorating all the breaches in security caused by Javascript, all the human toll of being tracked - by Javascript- online. Take everything in set B and task yourself with creating a secure methodology of obtaining the same or similar level of utility not involving Javascript or anything less secure.Ĭompare the effort to do that with the sum total cost of what Javascript has inflicted on the world. Call the remainder set A.įrom set A, throw away every application whose functionality could be essentially be replaced by something like an ASP or JSP/Servlet round-trip hit without it much bothering anyone, as in the olden days. Take all the JS on all the webpages and throw away every page to which it's not essential. "JS makes Google Docs, Slack, and a thousand other applications. That's 98% of its utility.Īll webpages should have a non-Javascript, "here's the info" version available and the fact they don't is a scandal and we are the culprits. Javscript is the instrumentality of the surveillence state. They demand that so they can fingerprint you- no other REAL reason for Javascript's popularity.Įvery single person on this particular forum eithers knows or can clearly see what I am saying is true, but their jobs depend on them selling their Javascript skills and that's the reason this post, as you read it, is fading to gray as its downvoted. Javascript is popular because people who own websites demand it be enabled. It's the reason why telling your browser to dump-cookie at the end of a session is ineffective. What's worse, some pages check for it and deliver a totally blank page if it's not enabled, just to punish the non-compliant.Įven worse than all of the above is the fact that Javscript is the vehicle through which users are IDed and tracked. Javscript's contributes mostly fluff to the vast majority of webpages. Javascript is a security nightmare responsible for the overhelming majority of web-based CVEs. Everyone should stop writing webpages which require javascript.
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