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I'm not sure how much work it would require for you to support this, but it would help cement your place as a good web actor if you're so inclined!
The response is:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url='https://weatherextension.com/'" />
Side note, I think a 301/302/303/307/308 redirect is better than meta refresh (t.ly happens to use a 301 redirect + meta refresh).
However given your username I'd like to let you know Cobra Kai season 3 recently released and is as silly as ever, in case you haven't already watched!
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Not the person you asked, but speaking for myself, all the time. I have a javascript toggle I use several times a day, and leave it set to off as much as I can.
Google works fine without javascript. Stunningly fast.
Until they block you for "suspicious behavior" after a few minutes of using it like that.
But simply disabling javascript and clicking next a few times is usually enough to set off their blockages. Even when not using a VPN. It happens less if you only ever look at the first page.
I started blocking JS a few weeks ago, and this has been my experience as well - a pleasant surprise.
For a long time I thought that would be a step too far, that browsing would become so annoying and unpredictable because of it. Any annoyance from having to turn on JS for individual sites is easily outweighed by the number of annoyances I avoid - news websites are actually readable, blogs open with their content rather than with an in-your-face pop-up, and as a bonus, I pay attention to things like: how many 3rd party domains is it trying to connect to? does it require 3rd party JS to be enabled to function at all? did they even consider the possibility of disabled JS and bother to write a noscript message? Things like this translate to a measure of trustworthiness to me now, and I've been both horrified (by simple blogs trying to connect to 80+ domains) and pleasantly surprised (by complex-seeming websites that don't use 3rd party JS at all).
[edit] The extension is called Quick Javascript Switcher. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-s...
It works as advertised for being a Javascript toggle.
When i switched to Ublock origin, i didn't even realize how to do this. I just allowed all JS whenever i found broken sites.
Now, this very thread encouraged me to finally figure out Ublock origin settings, and now, finally enable specific JS elements instead of a blanket "allow".
Here is a gret userguide for Ublock origin toggle.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/ultimate-ublock-origin-superu...
There are various reasons to block 3rd party JS; security, privacy etc; CDNs and remote-linking of Javascript and other such content is counter productive to those endeavours.
A good-citizen should aim to self-host anything as important as executable code _where possible_. The reasons, I hope, are obvious.
The biggest hurdle I've encountered so far, is that Stripe doesn't offer a fully nojs alternative to enable users to make payments, although this would be incredibly easy for them to do, considering that they already offer a hosted checkout[1]. The only thing missing here is a way to get the checkout URL itself from the server side, when the Checkout-session is generated.
[0] https://blog.klungo.no/2020/05/28/using-react-and-redux-to-a...
It's no place for me to dictate how you do your development, so I won't do that. It is however my personal opinion that websites should depend on HTML and CSS, and progressively enhance functionality with sprinkles of JavaScript. The vast majority of websites are not interactive applications, and I think modern web development practices could do with something of a hard reset.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide how things ended up where they are now and whether it's a good thing for them. Personally I think it's comical and horrifying just how much compilation goes on in projects written in that particular interpreted language these days!
Apps are killing the open web anyway. People being born now will grow up without knowing what the web is.
I agree about the state of the web tho. I'm a web dev and I often browse with JS disabled and always with adblocking and pihole.
I have 1 client-provided phone that I only power on for specific purposes that is not neutered and has a closed-source app.
They probably don't count private browsers even when I am a logged-in paying user - who parses server logs these days.
Not very common in the general population. But there are those (mostly software developers) who prefer to be in control what code they run on their computers. I know one person who does most browsing using lynx. That is certainly extreme, but extensions like NoScript and uMatrix (has gone out of maintenance recently) certainly have their user base.
I don't know how common it is, but I do. I have a secondary browser profile which does allow it, but frankly for just about any page I visit if it doesn't work without JavaScript I will skip it: the Internet is large and I rarely need to look at a page.
I certainly do! I am sure that I am very unusual, but to this day I very much prefer not to grant execute permissions to ever page I read. JavaScript is a huge security/privacy/performance hole, and is simply not needed for displaying lines of text and images, nor for accepting forms data.
It has some pros, too, but on the whole I really miss the mid-2000s Web and am not fond of all the web applications out there.
You'll still be blind to individuals that are blocking GTM/GA itself since you're not using the newer server-side GTM option, hence only a sanity check. But it's a fairly low-effort tweak to be able to get a read on how common it is for your site specifically.
[1] https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/track-non-javascript-vis...
I know a bunch of folks have replied, but I'm another one. I remember back before JavaScript; I remember when Flash was the bane of those who cared about privacy or security; I remember when 'DHTML' was the buzzword of the day.
I actually have a lot more appreciation for what JavaScript enables now than I used to. It really is neat that we have this platform-independent mostly-not-completely-insecure app runtime. Pity that it is built atop what should have been a hypertext system, though.
Well, Google Analytics and Googlesyndication are known to set the infamous PREF cookie (remember Snowden and PRISM?)... so I wouldn't recommend that website either if the whole point of this discussion is to avoid ad tracking cookies.
I also recently release a new feature called OneLinks that are great for social media bios. Here is an example on a OneLink: https://t.ly/TimLeland
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You also set cookies on every request apparently. What are they for?
$ curl -Is https://t.ly/ | grep -ic set-cookie
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