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I Decompiled the White House's New App— The app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages. (blog.thereallo.dev)

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[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's wrong with no-script? I've been running it for years. It's a lifesaver.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If one has it set to default-deny Javascript, a lot of websites don't work, because many web developers don't develop websites that work without Javascript today.

Historically, websites did a better job of falling back.