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What's something you wish to bring back from the late 90's/early 00's internet? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 year ago by josephsh98@lemmy.kde.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because of all the JavaScript. I swear like 90% of the Web nowadays is just JavaScript. Look into the NoScript add-on. It allows you selectively block (or allow) JS scripts on any given webpage/site/etc.

It actually makes it SO much faster to load webpages. Plus the privacy & security benefits are pretty nice too. 👍 :)

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've used NoScript for some time, but it breaks a lot of sites - because those 99% of bloat are all intertwined with the 1% of actual content. So even if I'm aware of the privacy, security, and speed benefits, I ended ditching it. (Actually I just deactivated it, but it's still there.)

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I, and most people in fact, only use a handful of sites these days. And most of the sites you only really need to block the most common tracking scripts and the site totally works fine and loads noticeably faster.

And you only have to do it once, not every time. It might take a bit of time the first go around but then every time after that it's out-of-sight-out-of-mind most of the time in my experience.