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    I disagree heavily with the core thesis of this article–that Javascript is in need of replacement–but the treatment of it and the ideas explored are quite interesting.

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      I’d honestly settle for browsers handling JS the way they do cookies. Let me decide whether to allow all JS, allow only self-hosted JS, or disable JS entirely – and let me blacklist/whitelist particular domains.

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        Have you looked at umatrix?

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          I use a hosts file.

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            I use a hosts file too, but umatrix allows more fine-grained controls than just blocking all requests to a domain, in addition to doing things like only allowing iframes/cookies/media from domain X to be loaded from domain Y.

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          You could write or use a browser extension that injects a Content Security Policy into the response. Make it configurable on a per-site basis is a stretch goal. :-)

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        Is it my dialup or is the site loading a little slower than usual?

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          I just ordered AT&T@Home service and it is 1337! Dump that dial-up!

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            It’s not you. There’s some 1 + n in the view counts and extra writes for the who’s online view at the bottom of the homepage.

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            I’m viewing this in Netscape Navigator 3 and can’t seem to embed any Visual Basic code in my responses. Help, Moderator!