On Sat, Nov 7, 2026, at 12:15, Bret Busby wrote: > Almost all web sites that impose javascript, are gratuitously > malicious, stealing the user's computer resources and taking control of > the user's computer. > > The proper and non-malignant use of javascript, is server-side > processing, rather than client-side processing, and, server-side > processing in javascript, is extremely rare, as evil prevails.
I wouldn't say that is true at all. The proliferation of client side JS both as anti-bot measures and in general with frameworks like React is unfortunate, certainly. Client-side JS frameworks for things that can be done perfectly fine with plain HTML, or plain HTML plus just a little JS to be dynamic, should never have become so commonplace. I use the NoScript extension, I know how it is. But "gratuitously malicious, stealing the user's computer resources and taking control of the user's computer" is not and never has been true for "almost all" such sites, or even for a majority unless you take a really radically broad definition of 'stealing [compute] resources' and 'taking control'. And certainly with the "AI" scrapper bots now, the mere use of JS challenge systems cannot be considered any kind of negative sign. I don't like JS challenges put up in front of otherwise perfectly good static HTML or lightly dynamic pages, but it's better than the alternative, which is at best "keep feeding the scrappers" and at worst "shut down because we can no longer afford bandwidth costs". With the middle ground maybe being "require you to log in to see anything". Sigh... Cheers, Kelly
