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JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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Another continual irritation:
The widespread tendency for JavaScript developers to intercept built-in browser functionality and replace it with their own poor implementation, effectively breaking the user's browser while on that site.
And then there's the vastly increased privacy & security attack surface exposed by JavaScript.
It's so bad that I am now very selective about which sites are allowed to run scripts. With few exceptions, a site that fails to work without JavaScript (and can't be read in Firefox Reader View) gets quickly closed and forgotten.