Another rant about web browsing

Yes, I’m writing again about my ongoing experiment with blocking JavaScript on a per-site basis. This time, I’m not here to explain how I operate in detail, but to complain about the work needed to maintain this web browsing hygiene. In short, the web is a mess, and while messy things can be fun, I’ve recently grown very frustrated with the need to dance around my extensions every time I visit a new site where displaying simple text apparently requires JavaScript, or where scrolling requires dismissing a cookie modal that is only visible if content blockers are turned off first. I’ve come to the conclusion that blocking JavaScript by default on all websites, as I’ve been doing lately, is a source of frustration. Yes, the web is light as a feather and my browser feels very fast when it doesn’t have to deal with all the JavaScript, I do love that. But this “strategy” breaks too many websites, pushing me to take detours so often that they can barely be called detours any more. You see, I…