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Yogi
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How comes that MS Windows is still hiding file extensions by default?
Some users don't know how to change that, or don't even realize that they can. There are many third-party file managers out there that are far better than Windows Explorer, anyway, and usually show extensions by default.
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What are browser vendors doing? They are making active content as difficult as possible to deactivate in their browser. The rational: modern web needs active content (sic) and the dumb ashole won't be able to watch precious content if he deactivated active content by mistake.
What they think is precious content is very often junk. I've been to some very reputable websites where the webmasters don't seem to know how intrusive and possibly dangerous some of those Javascript-driven ads are, because they subscribe to an ad service that apparently delivers the ads at random.
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Modern web also needs active content for better tracking, fingerprinting and data collection - IMO the main rational 'experts' don't like to talk about.
No, because it would mean money out of their pockets.
In every browser I've used, I've always looked for a quick way to toggle Javascript. That sometimes requires an extension, but K-Meleon's macros make it easier. When visiting a new site for the first time, I keep JS off unless that disables everything on the site. In that case I switch it back on briefly, and if things look suspicious, I avoid the site altogether.
In fact, I still keep JS off for cbc.ca, where I got that article, unless I want to see one of their news videos (usually I don't). The trick with cbc.ca is to watch out even if JS is disabled, because sometimes that leaves a big black area at the top where the banners would normally appear, and some clickable links are hidden there. They are too easy to hit by mistake. The last time I did that, it brought up a new tab that was supposed to contain an ad from doubleclick.net, but fortunately I had blocked doubleclick.net in my hosts file, so the tab was blank. :cool:
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Gerry
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/10/2016 09:26PM by foliator.