Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> Some web sites are broken. They may be too lazy to make sure
their
> interface is usable to work without javascipt ... Or they may want to
> force you to use it, to facilitate doing things you'd rather they
> didn't
jd1008:
In addition to allowing the
gmx.com javascript,
you have to also allow these javascripts:
indexww.com
openx.net
googlesyndication.com
uicdn.com
exponential.cm
googletagmanager.com
googletagservices.com
In other words, this is all malware they are pushing into your browser
which blithely executes them and damn the torpedoes.
While I can't comment on whether they're malware, we're going to
continue to see more and more of this thing, as various turn-key web
solutions (internet shop fronts that are being put on-line by some
computer nerd, instead of the business paying for someone to create a
decent on-line service), become less self-contained, and rely on
external services to do their tricks. I particularly notice that with
the various googletag domains - how you can't select things, nor see
prices, on shopping sites without enabling it.
And if you go to news sites, there's a mass of external services that
want to be allowed, because the page has incorporated external content
from twitter (& other social media), instead of quoting from it. You
also find that those pages rapidly become stale, because the
incorporated content disappears on them.
I use two add-ons with Firefox, as my defaults for all installations,
the FlashBlock and NoScript ones. They do take care of most annoyances,
until you come across a page where you have to experiment with which of
more than a dozen external services need allowing before the page works.
And it often requires reloads for another half-dozen *new* services to
be contemplated as they get dragged in by the content you'd just allowed
moments ago.
Quite apart from the nuisance factor on you, it is a disaster waiting to
happen to the websites. People keep discovering cross-site exploits,
and if your website relies on a plethora of external services to run,
you've exposed yourself to an extra onslaught of exploit vectors.
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