I didn't say that I have JS disabled ;)
What I said was i tried html5 player without JS and it works ;)
To your question, there is no "perfect answer". Should JS be disabled or
enabled by default?
Tor Browser Bundle is a tool that millions of people use, and most of them
need for it to be as simple as "download, open, run". Most people wouldn't
use Tor if they had JS disabled by default because many people don't even
know what JS is. So, instead of disabling JS entirely, the Tor Team made some
modifications to the browser so that it is safer even running JS.
Now, of course, given what we know about JS and the attacks recently used
against Tor (hidden services, network, browsers, etc) we should use it
disabled. Being users who are at "power user level" we can manage to have
temporary JS allowed in a certain site we need and set everything back to
normal after that. It is safer and I sometimes use JS disabled. But I don't
think it would be the right choice for Tor Browser Bundle default.
Your fears are a little bit unwise. If I am correct you are from france, and
france has a large community of Tor users. You will hardly have problems with
using Tor. Running a relay is something different and can't really give you
advice on that.
You can use startpage to search media gobblin. Like this
SEARCHITEM site:SITETOSEARCH
an example is "rms site:gobblin.se"
yes, it should be already implemented in Gobblin, given that they can even
use startpage for it :P
Tor is faster yes, a lot than it was 10 years ago. However, it is not mainly
because Tor has improved. Of course, they did improved they way circuits are
handled and they encryption has been strengthen as well, but speed is better
now because we have communities like torservers.net who have been keeping
high speed exit relays running 24/7. 10 years ago we didn't had any of that
so, it is really a matter of "having enough high speed relays from trusted
sources" so that the network is fast to handle the use we give it.
Remember: fight to live, don't live to fight ;) If you start making too many
sacrifices, one day you will not be using a computer anymore because "it
might not be safe". See Fernando last post and my reply there to get what I
mean. we should improve the tools we have to be safe and we should use them
wisely, but we should not stop living our lives because of the NSA or someone
else.
