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OTOH I do appreciate their openness. It beats those times when I try visiting a site, only to get a cryptic 403 error or similar and no suggestion the site would like to hear from me.

I also have JS disabled in Firefox on my phone. It's on by default on my laptop, as I apparently visit different sites when my butt is planted in a chair.

My wish is actually for the days of NPAPI where Webassembly would be just another plugin (like Flash) and browsers clung to mainly HTML, JS, and CSS. Then developers wouldn't be quite so keen to rely on it and the web would be much less bloated. Yes, those days are long gone... As a tradeoff, I'd settle for a simple toolbar icon that lit up when Webassembly is running, and/or a high level UI (just like Location, Camera, and Microphone) so I can enable it for just those sites that need it. I tried selling Mozilla on the idea once but they apparently weren't interested.

Baselines aren't entirely universal. I remember the days when the Mozilla (or early Firefox) browser was the only viable web client for Linux, but some sites still opted to run behind ActiveX. Today I don't think you'll find a Haiku or Amiga browser with Webassembly support, nor Firefox for Linux on IBM Power motherboards. It's easy to forget that just because most any 'nix or BSD OS has a plethora of choices, that others aren't still dealing with the "ActiveX" situation and feeling like everybody's out to get them.

I haven't disabled web workers, but am playing with the concept. T-Mobile's payment portal screams and then bans my IP (something like that) if try. I have disabled service workers globally, and so far no fallout.

Thanks. You're right; it was a very thorough article and I trailed off about halfway through. I still say there are many improper uses of Webassembly out there, but I credit the developer for a highly thoughtful approach to the project. I really wonder if Cloudflare et al. does as much due diligence?

I assume the average person buying the standard model could then just disable WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS if they so chose? So this really is for high security situations?

Time and time again, I prove that I'm human by giving this crap the finger and then visiting some other site. It's calling out a false positive and then exercising good taste.

Gmail turned me off way back when it became obvious that they scanned your email to present relevant advertising.

I've paid for email nearly forever (Earthlink, not the most high tech provider but good enough) and get nearly zero spam. Their price went up again recently, but apparently if you mention Fastmail they'll match the cost.

I was listening to the local TV news a few weeks ago and the reporter talked about an SMS scam insisting that you owe unpaid turnpike charges. He said "most of us have seen them". I'm thinking, I've never received anything like that!" and then realized it could be because I don't give out my phone number to just anybody who asks. And tend to push back when they do.

Just wanted to say that reading all the comments here, I'm getting flashbacks to alt.aol.sucks.

I'll be waiting.

In the meantime, I'm currently using a low end Motorola moto g 5G 2023 which lets me turn off Play Services. Chrome and the Google Calendar don't run (really do need to find a replacement calendar), and I couldn't be happier. Motorola's interest in GrapheneOS makes me wonder if they did this on purpose.

I ran into this just tonight. Coincidentally, I also just received an email from IMDB:

>> Dear IMDb customer,

>> We noticed you haven't signed in to IMDb in over three years, and your account shows no activity (no Watchlist, ratings, reviews, or lists).

>> To keep your account active, please sign in to IMDb.com. If you don't sign in by May 20, 2026, your account will be closed. You will then need to make a new account to create a Watchlist, rate and review titles, and access other IMDb features.

Good. Saves me the trouble of figuring out how to close it.