The solution is to disable JavaScript and not run any untrusted apps. And then move to a shack in the woods and live off the land, because you just cut yourself off from modern society.
Noscript is annoying for like a week until you get the sites that you use frequently and basically trust whitelisted.
Sure, it isn’t perfectly safe. If HN or my employer goes evil, they can rowhammer me I guess. I’d expect it to cause a big todo, though, so I’m not that worried about it.
I don’t really understand why people seem to think disabling JS is a big hassle. Is this motivated reasoning by web devs or something?
It is not a big problem, and the sort of “ambient shittiness” of the internet greatly improved by doing it. Most sites work fine, they’ll default to some (better) less dynamic state, maybe some ads won’t load. For those sites that don’t work, you can make an exception or leave. Personally I’m now mostly visiting sites by people who don’t enjoy over complicating things, and who think about fallbacks. It is great!
The year is 2024. Solar panels you installed from Alibaba begins to search for cell towers. Your local instance of LLM voice bot you built to keep you company is using a malicious npm package that suddenly communicates with the solar panels and starts sending packets to a Chinese server.
Your solar panels are talking to China, your lightswitch is part of a massive botnet promoting bitcoin on X, your car is selling your data to your insurance company to have an excuse to raise your rates, your browser is protecting your privacy by routing all your sensitive information through their servers for them to inspect.
Your phone is selling your location for antiabortion fanatics to harass you, or help your stalker find you. Your ISP is selling your browsing history to anyone with a dollar.
That databroker that everyone was selling too just went to bankrupt and the banks are selling your data to anyone with a penny.
The fact that I must run JavaScript written by just about anyone, in order to live in a modern society, or the fact that I keep having to write code in JavaScript in order to run a (completely non-JS related) business.
