Em Adespoton

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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • This is why using a local web proxy is a good idea; it can standardize those responses (or randomize them) no matter what you’re actually using.

    Personally, I keep JavaScript disabled by default specifically because of this, and turn on those features per-site. So if a website has a script that requires the accelerometer for what it does, that script gets to use it. Other sites keep asking for it? I suppress the requests on that site and if it fails to operate (throws one of those ad blocker or “you have JS disabled errors), I just stop going to the site.

    I’ve found that with everything disabled by default, browsing the web is generally a pleasant experience… until it isn’t.

    This of course requires using a JS management extension. What I’d really like to see is a browser that defaults to everything disabled, and if a site requests something, have the browser ask for permission to turn on the feature for that particular script, showing the URL for the script and describing what the code does that needs the permission. This seems like an obvious use for locally run AI models.