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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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i really wish raymond would restart umatrix.. it was the most flexible script blocker. noscript's 'per site' permissions takes far too many clicks to do (some of) what umatrix does from one toolbar icon drop-down.
Im not super tech saavy, especially compared to the lemmy userbase, but every complaint about software just reads to me like whining about something you chose to install on your computer. You can just not use someone else's software, yes the mainstream software companies are fucking assholes and they will take all of your data and privacy in exchange for a subscription to their software. It's on you if you accept that deal.
Its not related to this but Tempermonkey amd scripts is insanely good experience.
Hey, so there are a few threads I can't see from this instance due to defederations and I wanna respond anyway.
@Digit@lemmy.today open dyslexia font? nice touch.
Thanks. Yeah, it's OpenDyslexicAlta Bold. It felt like a good option for a meme font that was kinda different and maybe easy enough to read to make it useful too.
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe That makes it easier for dyslexics?
Possibly for some, as @Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip said. I think it would probably be more beneficial for those who are introduced to it at a young age. Otherwise it takes some time to get used to it, and I did end up falling back to the fonts I had been using. But I do like OpenDyslexicAlta font and think it makes a good meme font, so yeah.
Okay so that's my response to the chain of comments quoted above. Sorry I can't give y'all upvotes due to the defederation, and sorry it took me so long to realize there were comments which were hidden from me. I do try my best to respond to everything that seems directed at me or which I can offer a worthwhile response.
The next chain of comments is much longer (it's a really good one too), and I'm thinking I'll make one or more responses when I get back online a while from now.
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Thanks. Yeah, itβs OpenDyslexicAlta Bold. It felt like a good option for a meme font that was kinda different and maybe easy enough to read to make it useful too.
This, I applaud. I aim similarly.
This is so on-brand with the meme, bravo. Also you seem very thoughtful.
Those last two panels are so far past the inconvenience I'd ever be willing to put up with. I'm not sure how it could ever be worth it.
I tried it for a while. I got caught up in the 'privacy' crowd on Reddit and went all out for a bit. Even de-googled my Android phone at the time. It is inconvenient as fuck. And you're going to be spending more time tinkering and looking for workarounds and alternate software than actually ever getting anything done. All just to stop an advertising company from detecting what you clicked on, or for the website owner to never get any telemetry.
de-googling your android can be pretty easy and convenient, nothing compared to disabling javascript IMO
Yeah I've been running graphene for years. I can understand how the technically illiterate might have problems on rare occasion. Multiple stores can get confusing. Launchers are a thing. Nevertheless its nothing over the frustration I had previously carrying something I couldn't trust in my pocket.
Nah it's really not convenient when it comes to things like banking apps that get fussy about how customised your phone is. It's fine most of the time but you're going to be running into issues at inconvenient times when you don't really have the time to sit and play. Although I'm also talking a couple of years ago now, chances are things have improved.
disabling javascript
Yeah you're basically breaking everything. I did this before it was chic when I had a Nokia phone running Opera Mini lmao.
My impression was that the OP was about disabling javascript. I've also had issues with banking apps on CalyxOS and iodΓ©OS, but overall could be worse
Bottom left is a super-convenient built-in feature of Qubes OS, via qubes-whonix. I just click a button and a new disposable whonix qube is generated from the template, and it only takes seconds to boot. When I'm done with it, I close the window, and the disposable qube is automatically deleted.
Bottom right is my default, since I don't like broken sites.
Okay I just did some cursory research and it doesn't sound simple. Is it just installing qubes-whonix and creating a template (I'm guessing a yaml config or similar)?
As far as sites with JavaScript being "broken", that one puzzles me. I have tried turning off JavaScript in the past and probably 70% of websites became fully non functional. That shouldn't be the case, but it often is, and my impression has been that this has gotten worse, not better. I'm a web developer and no one talks about progressive enhancement anymore and frankly my coworkers have mostly thought it's silly to even try to support users who turn off JavaScript.
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Honestly, it's bonkers that the standard, default approach for all mainstream browsers is to let every random website in the world run any arbitrary code it wants on your computer.
Yeah, they usually attempt to sandbox it, but still. Sometimes sandboxes can be escaped. And sometimes the code can do significant harm while still inside its sandbox.
Most websites would break, or not even display, without javascript. Sure, it's bonkers for you, but an alternative browser that can't immediately show a website that works perfectly well in Chrome wouldn't get much of a user base.
I hate javascript
Iβm not sure why there is a downvote on thisβ¦ unless the downvoter thinks you donβt hate javascript enough?
Brave users
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Most websites would break, or not even display, without javascript.
I use NoScript -- I'm well aware.
But a lot of those websites could function without javascript. A lot of websites use it unnecessarily, for reasons such as:
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They want their ads and trackers and other malicious code (such as soft paywalls) to work as intended.
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They want to add fancy cosmetic elements to the content and are too lazy to think about failing gracefully and still displaying the content if javascript isn't working.
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They built the website in a framework that depends on javascript, and are again too lazy to bother worrying about graceful failure if javascript isn't working, even if their content could, in theory, be displayed just fine without it. (Or maybe the framework developers deserve a bit of the blame for that laziness, since they could have made graceful failure a feature of the framework, but chose not to.)
In a hypothetical world where most browsers didn't allow every website to run arbitrary code, then every website would be forced to take that into account and only depend on javascript when it's absolutely necessary for the website's core functions.
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You are allowing webpages to load?
You guys turn on computers?
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I can't convince my wife to even use an add blocker, because it makes some (terrible) websites unusable (and you need an entire one additional click to disable it, it's too much effort), blocking JS would make the entire internet unusable for normies.
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Does this comic use that dyslexic font? If so, nice touch.
bonus meme:
I have never heard the bottom left take anywhere before, though.
Having said that, Firefox+ublock+noscript rules.
I have never heard the bottom left take anywhere before, though.
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"You are, without doubt, the strangest online-script user I've ever heard of."
"But you have heard of me!"
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[Edit: Sorry, slipped into wrong language before...]
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