Daring Fireball6d ago
★ ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’
https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/your_frustration_is_the_product
‘Your Frustration Is the Product’

The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.

Daring Fireball
Show threadQuiche Industries5d ago

@daringfireball

One of the many reasons I made Quiche Browser was to get a per-website JavaScript kill switch in my toolbar.

But these days I'm even tempted to disable JavaScript everywhere and enable it only where needed.

Show threadRobert Vitonsky3d ago
@quicheindustries @daringfireball in case that approach become popular, the sites will inline all that garbage with no JS. What's your next turn then?
Show threadQuiche Industries3d ago
@vitonsky @daringfireball Without JavaScript they won’t be able to do much in that area.
Show threadRobert Vitonsky2d ago
@quicheindustries @daringfireball what do you mean? It's site decide what content user will see. Not the JavaScript.
Show threadQuiche Industries2d ago
@vitonsky The most annoying kind of contents, modals, interactions, or animations can't exist without JavaScript.
Show threadRobert Vitonsky2d ago
@quicheindustries incorrect. The animations is implemented via CSS, not a JS. Modals may be shown by default when page loads and require a user action to close that modal. With no JS you just will not be able to close such modals
Show threadQuiche Industries

@vitonsky It depends. Some animations can be fulled JS driven, and pure CSS animations might need JavaScript to be triggered.

I'm not denying that blocking JS everywhere will break some websites, but content blockers can help hiding such modals and overlays.

Mar 23 at 1:58amWeb