Many sites like “Elude” work perfectly without javascript, allowing their use through tools to escape censorship such as Tor.

Why doesn’t Lemmygrad implement this too?

  • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    nor does avoidance of Javascript really have anything to do with Tor.

    Tor browser uses LTS firefox, is sometimes late with updates for bugs that don’t seem critical and is mostly the same on every (OS, platform) pair. Disabling javascript makes successfully exploiting any existing bugs many magnitudes harder. (which is already quite hard tbh)