JS blocking has to be one of the silliest tech habits in existence. Unlike Flash, this is a native web technology, and THE lingua franca of the web. So many sites, especially fancy/high quality HTML5 web2.0 super-awesome sites, not just rely on JS but are built on it. In the switch from Flash to native technologies, JS is the great enabler. Anyone not using it is not only missing out, but will not be catered to by most web developers at this point (unlike those blocking flash who are catered to with fallbacks, because reasonable ones exist. Yes some fallbacks can be provided, but more and more this is becoming impossible, and in the world of web apps JS is the end-all be-all). These people are a tiny, cringing <2% of users who aren't going to be catered to, who will steadily miss out on more and more of what the web has to offer, who will see ever more broken stuff (and may not even realize what is broken), and they do this all under the absurd banner of security which is just bollocks. Probably the same people who triple-deadbolt their doors and double encrypt their harddrives and have 64-digit randomly generated passwords, under some grand allusion that their personal data carries with it the weight necessary to make foreign governments pour huge sums of money and man-power into cracking into their oh-so-important data (a bank account with $2,500 and some lolcat pictures). But I digress, anyone blocking javascript at this point might as well go back to a
text-based browser, they certainly don't care for the modern web because they've blocked the only native client side language that we have. Blocking javascript is little more there paranoia-induced security theater, at the cost of everything the modern web has to offer.
Ifalna wrote:As far as Java Script goes: I never really deactivated it, and I don't plan to. I rather take care of what I click on in the first place.
10 Yrs of Internet use and no problems so far.
Exactly! Behavior matters more to security than anything. It's like installing mega-antivirus ultimate extreme edition on your uncles computer and he still gets a virus. You, without any AV, are trouble free. Blocking one form of content or running everything through an AV cannot save you from yourself. Education and good personal practices will do more than anything to keep you safe. That and an up to date browser.