Many sites like “Elude” work perfectly without javascript, allowing their use through tools to escape censorship such as Tor.

Why doesn’t Lemmygrad implement this too?

  • @embaixadordaursal@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    12 years ago

    I’m not claiming it is. But it’s a possibility. And I’ve shared it on other sublemmys to draw attention to something essential.

    Many tools, programs and websites are placed on the internet to attract specific users and collect data. And it’s possible to create a version without javascript with basic functionality, sites like Elude prove it.

    • @Nyaa@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      While it is a possibility, it’s much less likely to be a honeypot than Reddit itself is. Also an admin replied saying that it’s possible for someone to rewrite the UI to not use JavaScript, the JavaScript is just here for convenience in development. This wasn’t really made to be the safe haven for people who know multiple state secrets and have assassins after them, it’s just a federated link aggregator. The about page doesn’t even mention the word privacy or anonymity a single time.

      • @BlackLotus@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        This wasn’t really made to be the safe haven for people who know multiple state secrets and have assassins after them, it’s just a federated link aggregator.

        Lmao, right? Well said. There are different tools for different jobs.

          • @BlackLotus@lemmy.ml
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            -12 years ago

            It does run on tor, you just have to enable javascript, losing some of the benefits of tor.

            Either way, this isn’t the place for putting state secrets that make you fear for your life. There are already better tools for that, and lemmy was never trying to be that.

            If you want a lemmy instance that does, make your own.

            You’re clearly not a developer, so you don’t understand that what you’re asking is for the lemmy devs to start the frontend over from scratch. Additionally, for most normal users who don’t have your specific needs, JavaScript powered webpages are likely preferable. In a perfect world, there would be both a JS-free and a JS version of the web page to cater to both categories.

            We don’t live in that perfect world, sorry. Feel free to dedicate thousands of hours to learning to program and then hundreds or thousands more to implement the feature you want. We’d all appreciate your contribution.

            • @stopit@lemmy.ml
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              02 years ago

              It’s not about state secrets…it is about user rights which is paramount to the free software movement. If developers really feel JS is necessary (its not) they should at least limit themselves to libre-js (they don’t).

              • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
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                12 years ago

                If you want to tell us how to do our work, then you should pay us. Otherwise, the software is available as is.

    • CHEF-KOCH
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      22 years ago

      Same like it possible that moon landing was hoax right, easy-peasy manipulating 400k people who worked on that project…

      Come back to reality, friend.