{"id":3296,"date":"2010-12-14T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2010-12-14T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:19:54","slug":"the-web-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/12\/14\/the-web-my-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Web, My Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to work for an ad-supported company, so I’ve always felt kind of bad using AdBlock<\/a>. I bifurcated for a while between keeping AdBlock off except for obnoxious sites, or keeping AdBlock and whitelisting sites I frequent that aren’t obnoxious. It ended up getting to be too much of a hassle, so I’ve browsed with AdBlock on full-time, and a handful of sites whitelisted. I still feel bad doing so, but not bad enough to unblock.<\/p>\n

Recently I’ve noticed a couple sites that are really slow. Firebug shows they’re doing tons of crap<\/em>. Uncrate seems to have something that will go off and do an AJAX post any time I scroll to expose new content, and content from several other sites is pulled in. Slowly. The site locks up my browser for a moment. Some other site I went to the other day managed to peg one of my cores at 100% CPU usage. I don’t even know what it was doing.<\/p>\n

I’ve declined to use NoScript<\/a> for a long time, because in 2010, the Internet just doesn’t work<\/em> without JavaScript. It would be like me trying to avoid surveillance cameras in public, or trying to avoid using WiFi because I didn’t trust it. But I’ve just had a mini-rebellion. There is so much crap<\/em> on pages. A page pulls in JavaScript tags from a half-dozen sites, and each of those pulls in more<\/em> scripts that all make calls all over the place. I have a pretty fast computer<\/a> and keep Firefox locked down, so when a page is able to lock up Firefox for a moment, something is really wrong.<\/p>\n

So I’m browsing the web on my terms now. NoScript blocks just about all JavaScript and I’m starting to selectively whitelist. I did permit Google Analytics.<\/p>\n

The other great thing about NoScript is that it blocks Flash by default. I like Flash for things like videos. But Flash is also insidious in its use of persistent cookies that your browser doesn’t control. Using Adobe’s site to view saved Flash cookies<\/a>, I have a ton, mostly from sites I’ve never even heard of. I deleted content from all of them, but also don’t permit Flash to run by default.<\/p>\n

The Internet looks pretty crappy now, but right now I prefer that to sites that are<\/em> crappy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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