Show HN: Noscript.it – browse and share links with JavaScript disabled
noscript.it
noscript.it
I made this some time ago because provide a per link/site "noscript" on iOS.
I am not sure if this is useful to anyone else, or even if anyone else understands what it does. So I posted it here to see get see if I get some feedback.
I am specifically curious about
1. is it clear what the page does and why it's useful? 2. does anyone else think it's useful? 3. any suggestions to make things better?
The backstory is that I wanted "noscript" on Safari/iOS as I've found a lot of sites is simply nicer to visit without javascript. No popups, no GDPR consent screens, no ads etc.
The option of globally disabling javascript on Safari is not really realistic, so I was for some time thinking about solutions using content blockers, but never got that working.
Then I happened upon the sandbox feature of iframe's and decided to see if I could make it work. This is the result.
It's a hack and often breaks, but sometimes it's nice to be able to share a fast-loading version of some website which loads way too much javascript for little benefit.