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Which is yet another reason to disable Javascript by default: it can see everything on the page, and do anything with it, to include sending everything to some random server somewhere.

I am not completely opposed to scripting web pages (it’s a useful capability), but the vast majority of web pages are just styled text and images: Javascript adds nothing but vulnerability.

It would be awesome if something like HTMX were baked into browsers, and if enabling Javascript were something a user would have to do manually when visiting a page — just like Flash and Java applets back in the day.



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